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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Dai·ry n.; pl. Dairies
 1. The place, room, or house where milk is kept, and converted into butter or cheese.
    What stores my dairies and my folds contain.   --Dryden.
 2. 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.   --Temple.
 3. 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.