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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mess \Mess\ (m[e^]s), noun [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.
At their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes. --Milton.
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.
3. A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. [Obs.] --Latimer.
4. The milk given by a cow at one milking. [U.S.]
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.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mess \Mess\ (m[e^]s), noun Mass; church service. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mess \Mess\, verb (used without an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Mess \Mess\, verb (used with an object)
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.]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
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}]
verb
2: make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room" [syn: {mess}, {mess up}]
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