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Mingle   /mˈɪŋgəl/   Listen
verb
Mingle  v. t.  (past & past part. mingled; pres. part. mingling)  
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."
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."
3.
To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. "A mingled, imperfect virtue."
4.
To put together; to join. (Obs.)
5.
To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. "(He) proceeded to mingle another draught."


Mingle  v. i.  
1.
To become mixed or blended.
2.
To associate (with certain people); as, he's too highfalutin to mingle with working stiffs.
3.
To move (among other people); of people; as, the president left his car to mingle with the crowd; a host at a a party should mingle with his guests.


noun
Mingle  n.  A mixture. (Obs.)





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"Mingle" Quotes from Famous Books



... forward till his white locks almost seemed to mingle with the thin flame, through which he glared at me with eyes that were fiercer ...
— Finished • H. Rider Haggard
... to minister to my dear Maud, except the impassioned revival, for it is so, of our earliest first love. It has come back to bless us, that deep and intimate absorption that had moved into a gentler comradeship. The old mysterious yearning to mingle life and dreams, and almost identities, has returned in fullest force; the years have rolled away, and in the loss of her calm strength and patience, we are as lovers again. The touch of her hand, the glance of her eye, thrill through me as of old. It is a devout service, ...
— The Altar Fire • Arthur Christopher Benson
... quicken and revive the spirits, strengthening the memory, expelling heaviness, preventing the vertiginous palsy, and a laudable cephalic, besides being an approved antiscorbutic." He tells further that the Italians, in making Mustard as a condiment, mingle lemon and orange peel with the (black) seeds. "In the composition of a sallet the Mustard (a noble ingredient) should be of the best Tewkesbury or else of the soundest and weightiest Yorkshire seed, tempered a little ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... flush, as anticipating the hour when the west should clasp the declining glory in a richer though less dazzling splendour, and shine out the bride of the bridegroom east, which behold each other from afar across the intervening world, and never mingle but in the sight of the eyes. The clear pure light of the morning made me long for the truth in my heart, which alone could make me pure and clear as the morning, tune me up to the concert-pitch of the nature around me. And the wind that blew ...
— The Seaboard Parish Vol. 2 • George MacDonald
... her to desire. Her heart was rejoicing over her husband with more than bridal joy,—her husband who had been "lost, and was found." On this first day of his coming home she suffered no trembling to mingle with it. She would not distrust the love which had "set her foot upon a rock, and put a new song in her mouth." "Mighty to save" should His name be to her and hers henceforth. The clouds might return again, but there were none ...
— Stephen Grattan's Faith - A Canadian Story • Margaret M. Robertson


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