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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was . . . fire mingled with the hail. Ex. ix. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry. [ 1913 Webster ]

The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. Ezra ix. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mingled, imperfect virtue. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To put together; to join. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become mixed or blended. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To associate (with certain people); as, he's too highfalutin to mingle with working stiffs. [ PJC ]

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. [ PJC ]

n. A mixture. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That can be mingled. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Confusedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Reduplicated fr. mingle. ] To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hotchpotch. [ Obs. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of mingling, or the state of being mixed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who mingles. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a mingling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]