Any company of the officers or crew of a ship, who eat, drink, and associate together. (See number.) Also, the state of a ship in a sudden squall, when everything is let go and flying, and nothing hauled in.
·noun Mass; church service. II. Mess ·vt To supply with a mess. III. Mess ·noun The milk given by ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A portion of food given to a guest (Gen. 43:34; 2 Sam. 11:8). ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
by the mess, by the mass, an oath. Derb. and Lane. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
·add. ·- Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest pl...
A Scotch presbyterian teacher or parson. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
The place where a ship's crew mess. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
A wooden tub for holding cooked victuals or cocoa. ...
The kids, crockery, bowls, spoons, and other articles of mess service. ...
A table for those on the doctor's list. When seamen are thus placed, their provisions are turned ove...
Dead, drowned, or killed. (See number.) ...