Definition of "daid"

"I c-can't he'p myse'f," stammered Celia; "you say such frightful things to me—you tell me that they happen in my own house—in her own room—How can I be calm? How can I believe such things of—of Constance Berkley—of yo' daid mother——"

1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige‎

"I wish I wuz daid. 'Tain' nothin' but wuk, wuk from mawnin' tell night."

1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook‎

"Why, he's daid!" he exclaimed, poking the lion with the muzzle of his gun.

1919, Henry Herbert Knibbs, The Ridin' Kid from Powder River‎

Ah, Mistah 'Possum, we got you at las'— Need n't play daid, laying dah on de groun';Fros' an' de 'simmons has made you grow fas',— Won't he be fine when he's roasted up brown!

1922, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar‎

In de mawnin' w'en he go to milk de cow, sho'nuf dey wuz a hawg a-lyin' on its side, daid.

1929, Carl Henry Grabo, The Cat in Grandfather's House‎