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To mix; to meddle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized…

To mix. [Obs.] Spenser.

Being without mixture or adulteration; hence, strong; racy. [Obs.]

Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. Then entered they the mere, main sea. Chapman. The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. Jer. Taylor.

Purely; unmixedly; absolutely. Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked. Chapman.

A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.]

stock. [Spanish America] Mestizo wool, wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep.

A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.

form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.

To impregnate or mix with methyl or methyl alcohol.

ing to the microcosm. Microcosmic salt (Chem.), a white crystalline substance obtained by mixing solutions of sodium phosphate and ammonium phosphate, and also called hydric-sodic- ammonic-phosphate. It is a powerful flux, and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. O…

A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.

Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie.

ig, pig iron made wholly from ore; in distinction from cinder pig, which is made from ore mixed with forge or mill cinder. Raymond.

To mingle; to mix. [Obs.]

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.

To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. [Obs.] Udall.

The act of mingling, or the state of being mixed.

A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.