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A male bawd; a pimp; a procurer. Thou art the pander to her dishonor. Shak.

A kind of sauce boat or dish.

t berry of a trailing american plant (Mitchella repens) of the order Rubiaceæ, having roundish evergreen leaves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself. (b) The fruit of the creeping wi…

f meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie. "If ye pinch me like a pasty." Shak. "Apple pasties." Dickens. A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. Sir W. Scott.

A small dish, pan, or vase.

A circular ornament, resembling a dish, often worked in relief on friezes, and the like.

A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.

A small roundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. "The pebbles on the hungry beach." Shak. As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Milton.

Silly; childish; trifling. [Obs.] To send such peevish tokens to a king. Shak.

A European trailing herb (Linaria Cymbalaria) with roundish, reniform leaves. It is often cultivated in hanging baskets. March, or Water, pennywort. (Bot.) See under March.

salver-shaped corollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera, with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.

Utensils or vessels made of pewter, as dishes, porringers, drinking vessels, tankards, pots.

Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).

A marine fish (Scorpæna porcus), native of Europe. It is reddish brown, mottled with dark brown and black.

An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. [Written also pilau.]

A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.

A reddish fleshy herb of the genus Monotropa (M. hypopitys), formerly thought to be parasitic on the roots of pine trees, but more probably saprophytic.

ym: [NL.] (Med.), a parasitic disease of the skin, characterized by the development of reddish or brownish patches.

, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn on the person, as a brooch.

Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.