To make neat or tidy by clipping, smoothing, or pruning, To remove (excess or unwanted parts), To decorate, especially by adding a border or contrasting element, adverb_ In a trim manner, adjective_ In good or neat order, In good physical condition; fit; slim, Having lines, edges, or forms of neat and pleasing simplicity, noun_ The readiness of a vessel for sailing with regard to ballast, sails, and yards, The difference between the draft at the bow and at the stern, Material used in commercial window displays

A number of persons who eat together at the same table; especially, a group of officers or men in the army or navy who regularly take their meals in company, A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; ; also, the food given to a beast at one time, A cluttered, untidy, usually dirty place or condition, intransitive verb_ To cause or make a mess, To take a meal in a military mess, transitive verb_ To supply with a mess, To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others)

A thorough cleaning or ordering, The act of cleaning or tidying something

receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials)