Definition of mess

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Mess (n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it..

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Mess :: Mess (n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
Kirmess :: Kirmess (n.) In Europe, particularly in Belgium and Holland, and outdoor festival and fair; in the United States, generally an indoor entertainment and fair combined..
Iris :: Iris (n.) The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods..
Wire :: Wire (n.) A telegraph wire or cable; hence, an electric telegraph; as, to send a message by wire..
Dispatch :: Dispatch (v. t.) To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste..
Gunroom :: Gunroom (n.) An apartment on the after end of the lower gun deck of a ship of war, usually occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers, except the captain; -- called wardroom in the United States navy..
Harbinger :: Harbinger (n.) A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger.
Fata Morgana :: Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily..
Pursuivant :: Pursuivant (n.) The king's messenger; a state messenger.
Nuncius :: Nuncius (n.) A messenger.
Herald :: Herald (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character..
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..
Mess :: Mess (v. i.) To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers..
Errand :: Errand (n.) A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to do an errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere..
Intelligencer :: Intelligencer (n.) One who, or that which, sends or conveys intelligence or news; a messenger..
Messeigneurs :: Messeigneurs (pl. ) of Monseigneu.
Muddle :: Muddle (v. t.) To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify..
Kermesse :: Kermesse (n.) See Kirmess.
Messieurs :: Messieurs (n. pl.) Sirs; gentlemen; -- abbreviated to Messrs., which is used as the plural of Mr..
Receiver :: Receiver (n.) That portion of a telephonic apparatus, or similar system, at which the message is received and made audible; -- opposed to transmitter..
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