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noun. A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty place or condition.

noun. Something that is disorderly or dirty, as a accumulation or heap.

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noun. A confused, troubling, or embarrassing condition or situation.

noun. One that is in such a condition.

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noun. An amount of food, as for a meal, course, or dish.

noun. A serving of soft, semiliquid food.

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noun. A group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, who regularly eat meals together.

noun. Food or a meal served to such a group.

noun. A mess hall.

intransitive verb. To make disorderly or dirty.

intransitive verb. To cause or make a mess.

intransitive verb. To intrude; interfere.

intransitive verb. To take a meal in a military mess.

phrasal verb. To pass time aimlessly or frivolously.

phrasal verb. To associate casually or playfully.

phrasal verb. To be sexually unfaithful.

phrasal verb. To botch; bungle.

phrasal verb. To make a mistake, especially from nervousness or confusion.

phrasal verb. To beat up; manhandle.

phrasal verb. To cause to be confused or troubled.

phrasal verb. To use or handle something carelessly; fiddle.

phrasal verb. To fight or get into conflict with.

phrasal verb. To tease or play a joke on.

noun. A disorderly mixture or jumble of things; a state of dirt and disorder: as, the house was in a mess.

noun. A situation of confusion, disorder, or embarrassment; a muddle: as, to get one's self into a mess.

noun. An obsolete form of mace.

To share a mess; eat in company with others or as a member of a mess; take a meal with any other person: as, I will mess with you to-day.

To supply with a mess: as, to mess cattle.

To sort in messes for the table, as meat.

To make a mess of; disorder, soil, or dirty.

To muddle; throw into confusion: as, he messes the whole business.

noun. An obsolete form of mass

noun. A supply or provision of anything to be eaten at one meal; a quantity of food sufficient for one or more persons for a single occasion: as, a mess of peas for dinner; a mess of oats for a horse.

noun. In fishing, the amount or number of fish taken; the take or haul of fish.

noun. A number of persons who eat together at the same table; especially, a group of officers or men in the army or navy who regularly take their meals in company.

noun. A set of four; any group of four persons or things: originally as a convenient subdivision of a numerous company at dinner, a practice still maintained in the London inns of court.

Mass. See by the mass, under mass.

noun. A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; ; also, the food given to a beast at one time.

noun. 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.

noun. A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

noun. The milk given by a cow at one milking.

noun. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.

intransitive verb. To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others).

noun. Mass; church service.

transitive verb. To supply with a mess.

transitive verb. To make a mess{5} of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb; to mess up.

"By this time our daily mess of food had become a _mess_ in every sense."

chief master-at-arms' mess  lower mess  mess john  orderly sergeants' mess  steerage mess  

lose the number of one’s mess  mess hall  messed  messing  

aliment  alimentation  disarray  disorder  disorderliness  

Bess  Es  Etess  Fs  Hess  

affair  bit  bundle  clothe  collection  

C ration  Chinese puzzle  Gordian knot  K ration  Rube Goldberg contraption  

messed  messes  messing