Mess ¹

Definition: Mass; church service.

Mess ²

Definition: 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.

Mess ³

Definition: 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.

Mess ⁴

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

Mess ⁵

Definition: The milk given by a cow at one milking.

Mess ⁶

Definition: A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.

Mess ⁷

Definition: To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.

Mess ⁸

Definition: To supply with a mess.

mess ⁹

Definition: a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax

mess ¹⁰

Definition: a meal eaten by service personnel

mess ¹¹

Definition: soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"

mess ¹²

Definition: (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"; "it must have cost plenty"

mess ¹³

Definition: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"

mess ¹⁴

Definition: a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"

mess ¹⁵

Definition: make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"

mess ¹⁶

Definition: eat in a mess hall