noun mass; church service.
2. mess ·vt to supply with a mess.
3. mess ·noun the milk given by a cow at one milking.
4. mess ·noun a set of four;
from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
5. mess ·vi to take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, i mess with the wardroom officers.
6. mess ·noun a disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
7. mess ·add. ·vt to make a mess of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb.
8. mess ·noun 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.
9. mess ·noun 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.