mess
- Noun. (obsolete) Mass; church service.
- 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. (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
- Verb. (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
- Verb. (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
- Verb. (intransitive) To eat (with others).
- Verb. (transitive) To supply with a mess.
- Noun. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
- Noun. (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
- Noun. (euphemistic) excrement.
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