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a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. Gray-headed men and grave, with warriors mixed, Assemble, and harangues are heard. Milton.

A mixing box materials. Harbor dues (Naut.), fees paid for the use of a harbor. -- Harbor seal (Zoöl.), the common seal. -- Harbor watch, a watch set when a vessel is in port; an anchor watch.

nd vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

nd other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.

A composition made from blood, mixed with mineral or vegetable substances, used for making buttons, door knobs, etc.

may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.

A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot. Johnson.

A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture. [R.]

A mingled mass; a confused mixture; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge. A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes. Bacon.

A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.

To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

A bituminous substance obtained from the mercury mines of Idria, where it occurs mixed with cinnabar.

To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly. [R.] Hudibras. Physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic. Coleridge.

To degrade to the state of a brute; to make brutal. And mixed with bestial slime, This essence to incarnate and imbrute. Milton.

To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend. [R.] Thomson.

Incapability of being mixed, or mingled.

Not capable of being mixed or mingled. A chaos of immiscible and conflicting particles. Cudworth.

The act of making into paste; that which is formed into a paste or mixture; specifically, a combination of different substances by means of cements.

Impertinence. [R.] O, matter and impertinency mixed! Reason in madness! Shak.