n. A mixture or mass of ingredients beaten or stirred together in a promiscuous manner; especially, a mess of bran and grain, or of meal, stirred with boiling water, or a mixture of boiled turnips and bran, etc., for feeding farm stock.n. Softness produced by beating or bruising; a pulpy state or condition: in the phrase all to mash, or all to a mash.n. In brewing and distilling, a mixture of ground grain, malted or otherwise prepared, and water.n. A mess, mixture, or jumble; confusion; disorder; trouble.n. A double-headed hammer for breaking coals.n. [⟨ mash, transitive verb, 3.] One who gains the affection or sentimental admiration of another: as, he is evidently her mash.To make a mash of by infusing or steeping in water, as malt in brewing.To press or beat into a confused mass; crush by beating or pressure: as, to mash apples in a mill.To gain the affection or sentimental admiration of (one of the opposite sex). See masher, 3.Synonyms Crush, etc. See dash.To act furiously; be violent: as, to go mashing around.n. An obsolete form of mesh.n. A dialectal form of marsh.n. In India, a kind of bean, Phaseolus radiatus.