A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck.
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.
A building or room in which mess is eaten.
A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table.
The milk given by a cow at one milking.
A large quantity or number.
Excrement.
A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool.
A group of iguanas.
A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner).
To eat (with others).
To make soiled by ejaculating.
To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to.
To supply with a mess.
To belong to a mess.
To make soiled by defecating.
To take meals with a mess.
To throw into disorder or to ruin.
To interfere.
A normal condition or state of affairs.
A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
A regulating principle.
A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
A regulation, law, guideline.
An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
A straight line (continuous mark, as made by a pen or the like), especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
To decide judicially.
To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines).
To excel.