DISH

Definitions

1. 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. 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. 3. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.
4. 4. A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.
5. 5. A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured.
6. 6. That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.