Thesaurus: mess

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1. n. Mass; church service.
2. n. 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.
3. n. 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.
4. n. A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
5. n. The milk given by a cow at one milking.
6. n. A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
7. v. i. To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
8. v. t. To supply with a mess.
9. n. a state of confusion and disorderliness
10. n. informal terms for a difficult situation
11. n. soft semiliquid food
12. n. a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel