mess

  1. Noun.  (obsolete) Mass; church service.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Noun.  A set of four; — from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
  5. Noun.  (US) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive) To take meals with a mess.
  7. Verb.  (intransitive) To belong to a mess.
  8. Verb.  (intransitive) To eat (with others).
  9. Verb.  (transitive) To supply with a mess.
  10. Noun.  A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
  11. Noun.  (colloquial) A large quantity or number.
  12. Noun.  (euphemistic) excrement.

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