A dish or a quantity of food prepared or set on a table at one time; as a mess of pottage; a mess of herbs; a mess of broth.

Amedley; a mixed mass; a quantity.

AS much provender or grain as is given to a beast at once.

A number of persons who eat together; among seamen and soldiers.

To eat; to feed.

To associate at the same table; to eat in company, as seamen.

To supply with a mess.