mess : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

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
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mess \Mess\, n. Mass; church service. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mess \Mess\, v. t. To supply with a mess.
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.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Mess a portion of food given to a guest (Gen. 43:34; 2 Sam. 11:8).