To die. Cotgrave (N.E.D.).
1825. I wonder he [the dog] didn’t go mad; or make a die of it.—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 398.
1837. Why, Tom, my boy, you don’t mean to make a die of it?—R. M. Bird, ‘Nick of the Woods,’ iii. 227 (Lond.).
1845. They said Billy was gwine to make a die of it and had sent for ’em.—W. T. Thompson, ‘Chronicles of Pineville,’ p. 72 (Phila.).
1848. I’m afraid I’m going to make a die of it. I’m going to ‘create a vacancy.’—Durivage and Burnham, ‘Stray Subjects,’ p. 195.
