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mess

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1. mess - Noun

2. mess - Verb

3. Mess - Proper noun

Meaning

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 dictionary

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Chemistry 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

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