a mesh.-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.-a mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.-a mess; trouble.-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.