mash

7 definitions found

mash - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  MASH \MASH\, MASH \M*A*S*H\, n. (Mil.)
     An abbreviation for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital,
     consisting of the equipment and personnel required to perform
     emergency operations on injured soldiers, located in tents
     near the front lines of combat; as, he worked in the 25th
     MASH.
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  Mash \Mash\, n.
     A mesh. [Obs.]
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  Mash \Mash\, n. [Akin to G. meisch, maisch, meische, maische,
     mash, wash, and prob. to AS. miscian to mix. See Mix.]
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     1. A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state
        by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy
        state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or
        meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of
        malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making
        the wort.
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     2. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
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     3. A mess; trouble. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
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     Mash tun, a large tub used in making mash and wort.
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  Mash \Mash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mashed; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Mashing.] [Akin to G. meischen, maischen, to mash, mix, and
     prob. to mischen, E. mix. See 2d Mash.]
     To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by
     beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples
     in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing),
     to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which
     makes wort.
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     Mashing tub, a tub for making the mash in breweries and
        distilleries; -- called also mash tun, and mash vat.
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mash - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mash
      n 1: a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in
           brewing
      2: mixture of ground animal feeds
      v 1: to compress with violence, out of natural shape or
           condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" [syn:
           squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze]
      2: talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The
         guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband
         never flirts with other women" [syn: chat up, flirt,
         dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance,
         philander, mash]
      3: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading;
         "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn:
         grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute]

mash - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Mash
  (= Meshech 1 Chr. 1:17), one of the four sons of Aram, and the
  name of a tribe descended from him (Gen. 10:23) inhabiting some
  part probably of Mesopotamia. Some have supposed that they were
  the inhabitants of Mount Masius, the present Karja Baghlar,
  which forms part of the chain of Taurus.

mash - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  188 Moby Thesaurus words for "mash":
     TV dinner, abrade, alfresco meal, all sorts, assemblage,
     assortment, atomize, barbecue, barley, bear, beat, bird seed, bran,
     bray, breakfast, brecciate, broad spectrum, bruise, brunch,
     buffet supper, butter, calf love, case, cat food, cataplasm, chew,
     chicken feed, chop, clambake, clutter, coffee break, comminute,
     conglomeration, contriturate, cookout, corn, crowd, crumb, crumble,
     crush, cushion, dental pulp, diner, dinner, disintegrate, dog food,
     ease, eatage, elevenses, ensilage, feed, fish fry, flour, fluff,
     fodder, forage, fragment, gallimaufry, gentle, grain, granulate,
     granulize, grate, grind, grind to powder, hash, hay, high tea,
     hodgepodge, hot luncheon, hotchpot, hotchpotch, hugger-mugger,
     infatuation, jam, jumble, jungle, knead, laxate, levigate, limber,
     limber up, litter, loosen, lunch, luncheon, macerate, magpie,
     massage, masticate, meal, meat breakfast, medley, melange, mellow,
     mess, milden, mill, mingle-mangle, miscellany, mishmash, mix,
     mixed bag, mollify, muddle, mush, oats, odds and ends, olio,
     olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, paper pulp, pash, passing fancy,
     paste, pasticcio, pastiche, pasturage, pasture, patchwork, pestle,
     pet food, petit dejeuner, picnic, pith, plaster, plump, porridge,
     potpourri, poultice, pound, powder, provender, pudding, pulp,
     pulp lead, pulpify, pulpwood, pulverize, puppy love, push,
     rag pulp, reduce to powder, relax, rummage, salad, salmagundi,
     sauce, scramble, scratch, scratch feed, scrunch, shake up, shard,
     shred, silage, slops, smash, soften, soften up, sponge, squab,
     squash, squeeze, squish, stew, straw, subdue, sulfate pulp,
     sulfite pulp, supper, supple, swill, tea, tea break, teatime,
     tenderize, tiffin, tone down, triturate, tumble, tune down,
     what you will, wheat, white lead, wiener roast, wienie roast,
     wood pulp