A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding. noun obsolete A set of four - from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.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 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 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.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.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 In fishing, the amount or number of fish taken the take or haul of fish.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.To sort in messes for the table, as meat.To supply with a mess: as, to mess cattle.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 muddle throw into confusion: as, he messes the whole business.To make a mess of disorder, soil, or dirty.
noun A situation of confusion, disorder, or embarrassment a muddle: as, to get one's self into a mess.noun A disorderly mixture or jumble of things a state of dirt and disorder: as, the house was in a mess.intransitive verb To take a meal in a military mess.intransitive verb To intrude interfere.intransitive verb To cause or make a mess.intransitive verb To make disorderly or dirty.noun Food or a meal served to such a group.noun A group of people, usually soldiers or sailors, who regularly eat meals together.noun A serving of soft, semiliquid food.noun An amount of food, as for a meal, course, or dish.noun A confused, troubling, or embarrassing condition or situation.noun Something that is disorderly or dirty, as a accumulation or heap.noun A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty place or condition.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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