Definition of mess

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Mess (n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

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Repeater :: Repeater (n.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point.
Hurkaru :: Hurkaru (n.) In India, a running footman; a messenger..
Express :: Express (a.) To send by express messenger; to forward by special opportunity, or through the medium of an express; as, to express a package..
Mess :: Mess (n.) Mass; church service.
Runner :: Runner (n.) A messenger.
Kid :: Kid (n.) A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.
Estafette :: Estafette (n.) A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.
Receive :: Receive (v. t.) To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, or the like; to accept; as, to receive money offered in payment of a debt; to receive a gift, a message, or a letter..
Telegram :: Telegram (n.) A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.
Embassy :: Embassy (n.) The public function of an ambassador; the charge or business intrusted to an ambassador or to envoys; a public message to; foreign court concerning state affairs; hence, any solemn message..
Courier :: Courier (n.) A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business..
Midshipman :: Midshipman (n.) Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required..
Mash :: Mash (n.) A mess; trouble.
Mercury :: Mercury (n.) A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence..
Letter :: Letter (n.) A written or printed communication; a message expressed in intelligible characters on something adapted to conveyance, as paper, parchment, etc.; an epistle..
Invitation :: Invitation (n.) A document written or printed, or spoken words, /onveying the message by which one is invited..
Missive :: Missive (n.) That which is sent; a writing containing a message.
Transmitter :: Transmitter (n.) One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver..
Incommunicative :: Incommunicative (a.) Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive..
Envoy :: Envoy (n.) One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador..
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