Dish , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dished (?);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dishing.]
1. To put in a dish, ready
for the table.
2. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the
spokes.
3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low]
To dish out. 1. To serve out of
a dish; to distribute in portions at table. 2.
(Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood. -- To dish up, to take (food)
from the oven, pots, etc., and put in dishes to
be served at table.
Dish (d&ibreve;sh), n. [AS. disc, L. discus dish, disc, quoit, fr. Gr. di`skos quoit, fr.
dikei^n to throw. Cf. Dais, Desk, Disc, Discus.]
1. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl,
used for serving up food at the table.
She brought forth butter in a lordly
dish.
Judg. v. 25. 2. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods."
Shak.
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Home-home
dishes that drive one from home.
Hood. 3. The state of
being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
4. A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.
5. (Mining) (a) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in
which ore is measured. (b) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid
to the land
owner or proprietor.
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