intransitive. To present or bring out food or drink to people who are dining, e.g. customers in a restaurant or guests at a formal dinner or…

To serve, serve up (a dish, food, etc.). Obsolete.

To bring (food, a dish, etc.) to a person or group at the table; to present (food or drink) to… transitive. With simple object. From 16th to 18th…

transitive. To carry or send (a dish, a meal, etc.) from kitchen to table; to present (food or drink) to a person or group as part of a meal; in…

transitive. To serve (food or drink). Obsolete.

transitive. To serve up (food); to divide or measure out (ingredients or portions). Also with †forth, up. Now Scottish and English regional (northern…

transitive. To place (food) on the table as a sewer does; intransitive to act as a sewer.

transitive. To carry or send (a dish, a meal, etc.) from kitchen to table; to present (food or drink) to people as part of a meal. In early use also…

transitive. To present a person or group with (a meal, dish, course, etc.); to set out (food, a dish) in portions for a meal. Later also of a…

(?) To serve up (a dish).

transitive. To put (food) into a dish, and set it ready for a meal. Also with up (†forth, out).

To put or apply one thing to another, as a seal to a document; to put (food) before.

to usher in (see also 1). To bring in (a banquet, meat, etc.) with ceremony.

To serve up (food, a course, meal): only with in, up, and in to send to table.

transitive. To pass around, give out. Also intransitive.

transitive. To carry or send (a dish, a meal, etc.) from kitchen to table; to present (food or drink) to a person or group as part of a meal. Obsolete…

transitive. Without construction indicating the recipient: to give out or pass around with the hand or hands; spec. to pass around or serve (food) at…