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| English Dictionary: mess |
by the
DICT Development Group |
| 7 results for mess |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- mess
- n
- a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a
mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed"
Synonym(s): mess, messiness, muss, mussiness
- informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
Synonym(s): fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
- soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge"
- a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel
- a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax
Synonym(s): mess, mess hall
- (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"
Synonym(s): 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
- v
- eat in a mess hall
- make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room"
Synonym(s): mess, mess up
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Mess \Mess\, n.
Mass; church service. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Mess \Mess\, n. [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.]
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Mess \Mess\, v. i. [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.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Mess \Mess\, v. t.
To supply with a mess.
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Mess \Mess\, v. t.
To make a mess of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble;
to disturb.
It was n't right either to be messing another man's
sleep. --Scribner's
Mag.
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| From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: |
Mess
a portion of food given to a guest (Gen. 43:34; 2 Sam. 11:8).
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