Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mingle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mingle \Min"gle\, v. i.
To become mixed or blended.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mingle \Min"gle\, n.
A mixture. [Obs.] --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mingle \Min"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mingled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Mingling}.] [From OE. mengen, AS. mengan; akin to D. & G.
mengen, Icel. menga, also to E. among, and possibly to mix.
Cf. {Among}, {Mongrel}.]
1. To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or
part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be
distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.
There was . . . fire mingled with the hail. --Ex.
ix. 24.
2. To associate or unite in society or by ties of
relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to
intermarry.
The holy seed have mingled themselves with the
people of those lands. --Ezra ix. 2.
3. To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
A mingled, imperfect virtue. --Rogers.
4. To put together; to join. [Obs.] --Shak.
5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
[He] proceeded to mingle another draught.
--Hawthorne.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mingle
v 1: to bring or combine together or with something else:
"resourcefully he mingled music and dance" [syn: {mix},
{commix}, {unify}, {amalgamate}]
2: get involved or mixed-up with; "He was about to mingle in an
unpleasant affair"
3: be all mixed up or jumbled together; "His words jumbled"
[syn: {jumble}]
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