Definition of "dye"

dye¹

/daɪ/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural dyes
1. A colourant, especially one that has an affinity to the substrate to which it is applied.
2. Any hue, color, or blee.
verb
third-person singular simple present dyes, present participle dyeing, simple past and past participle dyed
1. (transitive) To colour with dye, or as if with dye.
  Quotations
  If indeed sharks were inclined to eat people, the world's oceans would be dyed crimson with the blood of millions.
  1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 164

dye²

/daɪ/

noun
plural dyce
1. Archaic spelling of die (“a cube used in games of chance”).
  Quotations
  The Superficies was compoſed of ſeveral bits of Wood, about the bigneſs of a Dye, but ſome larger than others.
  1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Permitted to See the Grand Academy of Lagado. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 72
  If a dye were marked with one figure or number of spots on four sides, and with another figure or number of spots on the two remaining sides, it would be more probable, that the former would turn up than the latter;
  1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 46