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..
Mess :: Mess (n.) 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..
Mess :: Mess (n.) 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..
Mess :: Mess (n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
Mess :: Mess (n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
Mess :: 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..
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..
Message :: Message (n.) Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another..
Message :: Message (n.) Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message..
Messenger :: Messenger (n.) One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages..
Messenger :: Messenger (n.) One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells..
Messenger :: Messenger (n.) A hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable..
Messenger :: Messenger (n.) A person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge og the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent..