(n.) Mass; church service.
(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.
(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.
(n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies
into sets of four at dinner.
(n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
(n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a
situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he
made a mess of it.
(v. i.) To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat
(with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
(v. t.) To supply with a mess.
