/dair"ee/ , n. , pl. dairies , adj.
n.
1. an establishment, as a room, building, or buildings, where milk and cream are kept and butter and cheese are made.
2. a shop or company that sells milk, butter, etc.
3. the business of a dairy farm, concerned with the production and treatment of milk and cream and the manufacture of butter and cheese.
4. See dairy farm .
5. (in Jewish dietary law) dairy products.
adj.
6. of or pertaining to a dairy or a dairy farm.
7. of, for, or pertaining to milk, cream, butter, cheese, etc.: dairy products; the dairy case at a supermarket.
8. (in Jewish dietary law) of or pertaining to those foods, including all milk products, eggs, fish, vegetables, etc., that may be eaten at a meal in which milk is served, in contrast to meat and meat products, which may not.
[ 1250-1300; ME daierie, equiv. to daie, deie dairymaid (OE daege bread maker; c. ON deigja; see LADY) + -erie -ERY ]