mash

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A fermentable starchy mixture from which alcohol or spirits can be distilled.
2. n. A mixture of ground grain and nutrients fed to livestock and fowl.
3. n. A soft pulpy mixture or mass.
4. n. Chiefly British Mashed potatoes.
5. n. A crushing or grinding.
6. n. Slang An infatuation or act of flirtation.
7. v. To convert (malt or grain) into mash.
8. v. To convert into a soft pulpy mixture: mash potatoes.
9. v. To crush or grind. See Synonyms at crush.
10. v. Chiefly Southern & South Midland U.S. To apply pressure to; press.
11. v. Slang To flirt with or make sexual advances to.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A mixture or mass of ingredients beaten or stirred together in a promiscuous manner; especially, a mess of bran and grain, or of meal, stirred with boiling water, or a mixture of boiled turnips and bran, etc., for feeding farm stock.
2. n. Softness produced by beating or bruising; a pulpy state or condition: in the phrase all to mash, or all to a mash.
3. n. In brewing and distilling, a mixture of ground grain, malted or otherwise prepared, and water.
4. n. A mess, mixture, or jumble; confusion; disorder; trouble.
5. n. A double-headed hammer for breaking coals.
6. n. [⟨ mash, transitive verb, 3.] One who gains the affection or sentimental admiration of another: as, he is evidently her mash.
7. To make a mash of by infusing or steeping in water, as malt in brewing.
8. To press or beat into a confused mass; crush by beating or pressure: as, to mash apples in a mill.
9. To gain the affection or sentimental admiration of (one of the opposite sex). See masher, 3.
10. Synonyms Crush, etc. See dash.
11. To act furiously; be violent: as, to go mashing around.
12. n. An obsolete form of mesh.
13. n. A dialectal form of marsh.
14. n. In India, a kind of bean, Phaseolus radiatus.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete A mesh
2. n. uncountable A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
3. n. In 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.
4. n. Mashed potatoes.
5. n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
6. n. obsolete : A mess; trouble — Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher
7. v. transitive 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.
8. v. transitive To press down hard (on).
9. v. transitive, southern US, informal to press.
10. v. transitive, UK To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew
11. v. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances
12. n. obsolete an infatuation, a crush, a fancy
13. n. obsolete a dandy, a masher
14. n. obsolete the object of one’s affections (either sex)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. 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.
2. n. obsolete A mesh.
3. n. 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.
4. n. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
5. n. obsolete A mess; trouble.
6. v. (Brewing) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush. to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions
2. n. a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing
3. v. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
4. v. reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
5. n. mixture of ground animal feeds