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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.

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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.

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