·noun A mess; trouble.
II. Mash ·noun A <a href="">Mesha>.
III. Mash ·noun A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
IV. Mash ·vt To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to <a href="">Bruisea>; to <a href="">Crusha>; 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.
V. Mash ·noun 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.