Dish \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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Dish \Dish\, n. [AS. disc, L. discus dish, disc, quoit, fr. Gr.
? quoit, fr. ? 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.
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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