1. mess - Noun
2. mess - Verb
3. Mess - Proper noun
Mass; church service.
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.
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.
A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
The milk given by a cow at one milking.
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.
To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.
To supply with a mess.
Source: Webster's dictionaryChemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. Frederick Soddy
I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess. Angelina Jolie
Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them. Margaret Thatcher
There is nothing new under the sun- and that's why there remains such a mess. Yiddish Proverb
Keep your nose out of another's mess. Danish Proverb
A traveller does not make a mess where he had made a camp as he might one day come back. Swahili Proverb