Mingle

min·gle   (mĭng'gəl)    v.   min·gled, min·gling, min·gles v.   tr. To mix or bring together in combination, usually without loss of individual characteristics. See Synonyms at mix. To mix so that the components become united; merge. v.   intr. To be or become mixed or united. To join or take part with others: The faculty mingled with the trustees. [Middle English menglen, frequentative of mengen, to mix, from Old English mengan; see mag- in Indo-European roots.] min'gler n.

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.

mingle  (v.)