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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
mess n 1: a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn: mess, messiness, muss, mussiness] 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] 3: soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge" 4: a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel 5: a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax [syn: mess, mess hall] 6: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad] v 1: eat in a mess hall 2: make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room" [syn: mess, mess up] | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Mess \Mess\ (m[e^]s), n. Mass; church service. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] | ||
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Mess \Mess\ (m[e^]s), n. [OE. mes, OF. mets, LL. missum, p. p. of mittere to put, place (e. g., on the table), L. mittere to send. See Mission, and cf. Mass religious service.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] At their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. [Obs.] --Latimer. [1913 Webster] 4. The milk given by a cow at one milking. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] 5. [Perh. corrupt. fr. OE. mesh for mash: cf. muss.] A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] | ||
4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Mess \Mess\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Messed; p. pr. & vb. n. Messing.] To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers. --Marryat. [1913 Webster] | ||
5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Mess \Mess\, v. t. 1. To supply with a mess. [1913 Webster] 2. To make a mess[5] of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb; to mess up. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] It was n't right either to be messing another man's sleep. --Scribner's Mag. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] | ||
6. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary | ||
Mess a portion of food given to a guest (Gen. 43:34; 2 Sam. 11:8). | ||
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