Hypertext Webster Gateway: "meddling"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Meddle \Med"dle`\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Meddled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Meddling}.] [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F.
m[^e]ler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. ? See
{Mix}, and cf. {Medley}, {Mellay}.]
1. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]

More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts.
--Shak.

2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- ? a
good sense. [Obs.] --Barrow.

Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own
business. --Tyndale.

3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or
impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly
with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub
another's property without permission; -- often followed
by with or in.

Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? --2 Kings xiv.
10.

The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter
that belongs not to them. --Locke.

{To meddle and make}, to intrude one's self into another
person's concerns. [Archaic] --Shak.

Syn: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Meddling \Med"dling\, a.
Meddlesome. --Macaulay.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

meddling
adj : intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering
old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an
officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other
people's business" [syn: {interfering}, {meddlesome}, {officious},
{busy}, {busybodied}]
n : the act of altering something secretly or improperly [syn: {tampering}]


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