n. A supply or provision of anything to be eaten at one meal; a quantity of food sufficient for one or more persons for a single occasion: as, a mess of peas for dinner; a mess of oats for a horse.n. In fishing, the amount or number of fish taken; the take or haul of fish.n. A number of persons who eat together at the same table; especially, a group of officers or men in the army or navy who regularly take their meals in company.n. A set of four; any group of four persons or things: originally as a convenient subdivision of a numerous company at dinner, a practice still maintained in the London inns of court.To share a mess; eat in company with others or as a member of a mess; take a meal with any other person: as, I will mess with you to-day.To supply with a mess: as, to mess cattle.To sort in messes for the table, as meat.n. A disorderly mixture or jumble of things; a state of dirt and disorder: as, the house was in a mess.n. A situation of confusion, disorder, or embarrassment; a muddle: as, to get one's self into a mess.To make a mess of; disorder, soil, or dirty.To muddle; throw into confusion: as, he messes the whole business.n. An obsolete form of massMass. See by the mass, under mass.n. An obsolete form of mace.