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Meaning Of Mess

  1. n.
    Mass; church service.
  2. n.
    A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.
  3. n.
    A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.
  4. n.
    A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
  5. n.
    The milk given by a cow at one milking.
  6. n.
    A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
  7. v. i.
    To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
  8. v. t.
    To supply with a mess.



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