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What does "dish" mean?

Dish: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
  2. 3.A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.
  3. 4.(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.
  4. 5.To put in a dish, ready for the table.
  5. 6.To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.
  6. 7.To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low] To dish out.
  7. 8.To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table.
  8. 9.(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.

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