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noun

Dairy n. (pl. dairies)

The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese. "What stores my dairies and my folds contain."

That department of farming which is concerned in the production of milk, and its conversion into butter and cheese. "Grounds were turned much in England either to feeding or dairy; and this advanced the trade of English butter."

A dairy farm. (R.) Note: Dairy is much used adjectively or in combination; as, dairy farm, dairy countries, dairy house or dairyhouse, dairyroom, dairywork, etc.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dairy" Quotes from Famous Books

... was impossible that the most fanciful love should not grow passionate. The ready bosoms existing there were impregnated by their surroundings. July passed over their heads and the weather which came in its wake seemed an effort on the part of Nature to match the state of hearts at Talbothays Dairy. The air of the place, so fresh in the spring and early summer, was stagnant and enervating now. Its heavy scents weighed upon them, and at mid-day the landscape seemed lying in a swoon. Ethiopic scorchings browned the upper ...

— The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry • W. G. Archer

... when you were searching for rebels, you thought a man was concealed in a dairy-yard in the neighbourhood of my mother's house, major, in Stephen's Green; and you thought he was hid in a hay- rick, and ordered your sergeant to ask for the loan of a spit from my mother's ...

— Handy Andy, Vol. 2 - A Tale of Irish Life • Samuel Lover

... supplies the house and the dairy with water comes from the middle side-hill lot, some forty or fifty rods from the house, and is now brought down in pipes; in my time, in pump-logs. It was always an event when the old logs had to be taken up ...

— Our Friend John Burroughs • Clara Barrus

... green and cool, Sleek cattle standing in shadow or pool, And dairy-maids bearing pail and stool,— That is the ...

— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. - Scribner's Illustrated • Various

... some at the great, some at the little Bear; and so throughout the glistening hostelries of the whole twinkling asteristic welkin. There will be sojourners come from the earth, who, longing after the taste of the sweet cream, of their own skimming off, from the best milk of all the dairy of the Galaxy, will set themselves at table down with us, drink of our nectar and ambrosia, and take to their own beds at night for wives and concubines our fairest goddesses, the only means whereby they can be deified. ...

— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

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