Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dish"

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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