dish (dish)

[ Icel. diskr, a dish, plate, = Sw. Dan. disk, a dish, also a counter, = OF. dais, a table (> ME. dees, E. dais, q. v.), = Sp. Pg. disco, a disk, quoit, = It. disco, a disk, quoit, desco, a table, 1664 pulpit, cover, used to contain food or table-drink, such as tea, coffee, or chocolate. The use of the term to include drinking-ve els, as bowls and cups, is le common and seems to be obsolescent, except as such ve els are included in the collective plural dishes. A set of dishes includes all the ve els (except drinking-gla es) requisite for furnishing a table, as platters, plates of various sizes, ve els for vegetables, fruits, preserves, etc., tureens, bowls, and cups and saucers. Aftre take also a drope of Bawme, and put it in to a Di che or in a Cuppe with Mylk of a Goot. Mandeville, Travels, p. 52. You must bring two Dishes of Chocolate and a Gla of Cinnamon-water. Congreve, Way of the World, i. 7. A porcelain dish, o'er which in many a cluster Plump grapes hung down, dead-ripe and without lustre. T. B. Aldrich, The Lunch. 2. The food or drink served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food served at table; a supply for a meal: as, a dish of veal or venison; a cold dish. 'Tis an ordinary thing to bestow twenty or thirty pounds on a dish , some you sand crowns upon a dinner. Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 142. If you please, let us walk up to supper; and to-morrow, if the day be windy, as our days here commonly are, 'tis ten to one but we shall take a good dish of fish for dinner. Cotton , in Walton's Angler, ii. 263. We were roused from a peaceful dish of tea by a loud Beckford, Italy, II. 70. hubbub in the street. Nothing could be plainer than his table, yet his society often attracted the wealthy to share his single dish . Lady Holland , in Sydney Smith, iv. 3. In Eng . mining : (a) A rectangular box about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and and 6 6 wide, wide, i in which ore is measured. [Lead-mines of Derby shire.] The dish of the Low Peak is reputed to hold 14 Winchester pints, when level-full; while in the High Peak 16 pints are reckoned to the dish. Farey. (b) Formerly, in Cornwall, a measure holding one gallon, used for tin ore dre ed ready for the smelter. R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall (1769).-4t. A discus. Thei hastiden for to be maad felawis of wrastlyng, and of dis he , or pleyinge with ledun dis he [var. in ocupaciouns of a disch , ether pleiyng with a ledun disch , Purv.]. Wyclif , 2 Mac. iv. 14 (Oxf.). 5. The state of being concave or like a dish; concavity: as, the dish of a wheel. - Brazen dish. dish (dish), v. [= G. tischen, serve the table, sit at table; cf. ODan, diske, go to dinner, Dan. diske ( op ), dish or serve (up), = Sw. disk a, wash dishes; from the noun.] I. trans. 1. To put in a dish or dishes, as food; serve at table: often with up: as, to dish up the dinner. For conspiracy, Get me dishes. I know not how it tastes; though it be dish'd For me to try. Shak ., W. T., iii. 2. your best meat, and dish it in silver B. Jonson, Epicæne, iii. 1. 2. To cause to resemble a dish; make concave. Thus, a carriage-wheel is said to be dished spokes (either by construction or as the result of accident) are inclined to the nave, so that the wheel is concave on one side. made. Seven hours' travelling over very rough ground dished a wheel, and lunch was taken while repairs were being A. W. Greely, Arctic Service, p. 370. The slicer is hammered into a slightly arched or dished form. Byrne, Artisan's Handbook, p. 203. 3. To use up, as if by serving on a dish, or making a meal of; frustrate or disappoint; damage; ruin; cheat. [Slang.] For of this be a ured, if you "go it" too fast, You'll be dish'd. IMG:content-2797.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2798.png:[blocks in formation]