Dish

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A hollow place, as in a field.

II. Dish ·vt To put in a dish, ready for the table.

III. Dish ·noun A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.

IV. Dish ·noun A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

V. Dish ·noun That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

VI. Dish ·vt To Frustrate; to Beat; to Ruin.

VII. Dish ·noun The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

VIII. Dish ·vt To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

IX. Dish ·noun 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.".

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