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Meaning:
Noun:
- A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; a disorder.
- 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.
- 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.
- A set of four; ? from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
- colloquial A large quantity or number.
- obsolete Mass; church service.
- US The milk given by a cow at one milking.
Source: Wiktionary
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Verb:
- intransitive To belong to a mess.
- intransitive To eat (with others).
- intransitive To take meals with a mess.
- transitive To supply with a mess.
Source: Wiktionary
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