Definition of mess

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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..

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Herald :: Herald (n.) Any 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..
Harbinger :: Harbinger (n.) A forerunner; a precursor; a messenger.
Steward :: Steward (n.) A person employed in a hotel, or a club, or on board a ship, to provide for the table, superintend the culinary affairs, etc. In naval vessels, the captain's steward, wardroom steward, steerage steward, warrant officers steward, etc., are petty officers who provide for the messes under their charge..
Register :: Register (n.) The part of a telegraphic apparatus which records automatically the message received.
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..
Kermesse :: Kermesse (n.) See Kirmess.
Appurtenance :: Appurtenance (n.) That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and legal acceptation, something belonging to another thing as principal, and which passes as incident to it, as a right of way, or other easement to land; a right of common to pasture, an outhouse, barn, garden, or orchard, to a house or messuage. In a strict legal sense, land can never pass as an appurtenance to land..
Remember :: Remember (v. t.) To recall to the mind of another, as in the friendly messages, remember me to him, he wishes to be remembered to you, etc..
Flash :: Flash (v. t.) To convey as by a flash; to light up, as by a sudden flame or light; as, to flash a message along the wires; to flash conviction on the mind..
Estafette :: Estafette (n.) A courier who conveys messages to another courier; a military courier sent from one part of an army to another.
Challenge :: Challenge (n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons..
Apparitor :: Apparitor (n.) A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
Muss :: Muss (n.) A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess, but influenced by muss, a scramble..
Apostle :: Apostle (n.) Literally: One sent forth; a messenger. Specifically: One of the twelve disciples of Christ, specially chosen as his companions and witnesses, and sent forth to preach the gospel..
Post :: Post (n.) Haste or speed, like that of a messenger or mail carrier..
Dispatch :: Dispatch (v. t.) A message transmitted by telegraph.
Invitation :: Invitation (n.) A document written or printed, or spoken words, /onveying the message by which one is invited..
Almesse :: Almesse (n.) See Alms.
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..
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