Min"gle, n. A mixture.
[Obs.] Dryden.
Min"gle, v. i. To become mixed or
blended.
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.