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A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.]

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.

c tinking (Med.), a sound heard in the chest, when a cavity communicating with the air passages contains both air and liquid.

The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls. Sir T. Browne.

An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. [Eng.] Mr. Turveydrop's great room... was built out into a mews at the back. Dickens.

Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.

, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity. The rosy morn resigns her light And milder glory to the noon. Waller. Adore him as a mild and me…

A passage underground through which ore is shot.

coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.

Disagreement; misunderstanding. [Obs.]

ing; misapprehension; misconception; mistake. [Archaic] Fuller. The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion. Hare.

That which is sent; a writing containing a message.

Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.

Measured; -- a direction to perform a passage in strict or measured time.

To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.

Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.

er modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy.

Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution. Sage monitions from his friends. Swift.

The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach. Miters, and wretched dead mediæval monkeries. Carlyle.

on, and not to invade it. Bacon. The system of morality to be gathered out of ... ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. Swift.