Adjective

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* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=Ailsa Paige, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=How can I believe such things of--of Constance Berkley--of yo' daid mother----" "I don't know," he said dully. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers, title=Toaster's Handbook, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He rose, stretched, and grumbled: "I wish I wuz daid . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Henry Herbert Knibbs, title=The Ridin' Kid from Powder River, chapter=, edition= citation

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

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Paul Laurence Dunbar, title=The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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! }}

* {{quote-book, year=1929, author=Carl Henry Grabo, title=The Cat in Grandfather's House, chapter=, edition= citation

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

Adjective

(en adjective)

(obsolete) Oppressed with weight; crushed; weighed down.

(Tusser)

(Webster 1913)