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Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste. Ure.

A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.

The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [R.]

xcellence of any kind. Shak. This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world "This was a man! Shak.

A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain. [Prov Eng.]

An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance.

rmerly supposed to be an individual fatty acid, but is now known to be simply an intimate mixture of stearic and palmitic acids. (b) (Chem.) A white, crystalline substance, C17H34O2 of the fatty acid series, intermediate between palmitic and stearic acids, and obtained from the wax of certain lichens, from cetyl cyanid…

sed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin.

A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand.

A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.…

A mixture composed of different materials; especially:

ches. -- Quick match, threads of cotton or cotton wick soaked in a solution of gunpowder mixed with gum arabic and boiling water and afterwards strewed over with mealed powder. It burns at the rate of one yard in thirteen seconds, and is used as priming for heavy mortars, fireworks, etc. -- Slow match, slightly twist…

stract, which considers magnitude or quantity abstractly, without relation to matter; and mixed or applied, which treats of magnitude as subsisting in material bodies, and is consequently interwoven with physical considerations.

An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms. [Written also mauvine.]

To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. Shak.

To mix; to mingle; to meddle. [Written also medly.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously. This medley of philosophy and war. Addison. Love is a medley of endearments, jars, Suspicions, reconcilements, wars. W. Walsh.

Simple; unmixed. See Mere, a. [Obs.]

A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.

A mixture; a medley.