Mash

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Mash, n. 

 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.  [PJC]

Mash, n. 

 A mesh.  [1913 Webster]

Mash, n. [Akin to G. meisch, maisch, meische, maische, mash, wash, and prob. to AS. miscian to mix. See Mix.].

•  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.  [1913 Webster]
•  A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.  [1913 Webster]
•  A mess; trouble.  Beau. & Fl.  [1913 Webster]

Mash tun, a large tub used in making mash and wort.

Mash, v. t. [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.  [1913 Webster]

Mashing tub, a tub for making the mash in breweries and distilleries; -- called also mash tun, and mash vat.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Mash, n. & v.
--n.
1 a soft mixture.
2 a mixture of boiled grain, bran, etc., given warm to horses etc.
3 Brit. colloq. mashed potatoes (sausage and mash).
4 a mixture of malt and hot water used to form wort for brewing.
5 a soft pulp made by crushing, mixing with water, etc.
--v.tr.
1 reduce (potatoes etc.) to a uniform mass by crushing.
2 crush or pound to a pulp.
3 mix (malt) with hot water to form wort.

Derivative

masher n.

Etymology

OE masc f. WG, perh. rel. to MIX

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Mash

Mixture

N mixture, admixture, commixture, commixtion, commixion, intermixture, alloyage, matrimony, junction, combination, miscegenation, impregnation, infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion, infiltration, seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding, interpolation, adulteration, sophistication, tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupcon, alloy, amalgam, brass, chowchow, pewter, magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid, miscellany, ambigu, medley, mess, hotchpot, pasticcio, patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts, jumble, salad, sauce, mash, omnium gatherum, gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn, mosaic, half-blood, half-caste, mulatto, terceron, quarteron, quinteron, quadroon, octoroon, griffo, zambo, cafuzo, Eurasian, fustee, fustie, griffe, ladino, marabou, mestee, mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule, catalo, cross, hybrid, mongrel, mixed, implex, composite, half-and-half, linsey-woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous, motley, miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate, miscible, among, amongst, amid, amidst, with, in the midst of, in the crowd.

Disorder

N disorder, derangement, irregularity, anomaly, anarchy, anarchism, want of method, untidiness, disunion, discord, confusion, confusedness, mishmash, mix, disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber, cahotage, farrago, mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge, hotch-potch, hotch-pot, imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley, mere mixture, fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles, complexity, turmoil, ferment, to-do, trouble, pudder, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble, whirlwind, bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors, Bedlam, all hell broke loose, bull in a china shop, all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre, Devil to pay, pretty kettle of fish, pretty piece of work, pretty piece of business, disorderly person, disorderly persons offence, misdemeanor, slattern, slut (libertine), disorderly, orderless, out of order, out of place, out of gear, irregular, desultory, anomalous, acephalous, deranged, aimless, disorganized, straggling, unmethodical, immethodical, unsymmetric, unsystematic, untidy, slovenly, dislocated, out of sorts, promiscuous, indiscriminate, chaotic, anarchical, unarranged &c (arrange), confused, deranged, topsy-turvy, shapeless, disjointed, out of joint, troublous, riotous, complex, irregularly, by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts, pellmell, higgledy-piggledy, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, in a ferment, at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes, upside down, the cart before the horse, hysteron proteron, chaos is come again, the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.

Softness

VB render soft, soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper, mash, knead, squash, bend, yield, relent, relax, give, plasticize'.

Semiliquidity

VB inspissate, incrassate, thicken, mash, squash, churn, beat up, sinter.