Dictionary entry

Mingle

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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. Shak.

5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.

proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne.