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A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; -- now called maslin and meslin. Bacon.

Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection. "A miscellaneous rabble." Milton. -- Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Mis`cel*la"ne*ous*ness, n.

A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects. 'T is but a bundle or miscellany of sin; sins original, and sins actual. Hewyt. Miscellany madam, a woman who dealt in various fineries; a milliner. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Capability of being mixed.

Capable of being mixed; mixable; as, water and alcohol are miscible in all proportions. Burke.

Mixture. [Obs.]

A mingled compound in which different ingredients are contained in a liquid state; a mixture. See Mixture, n., 4.

ntil it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay; also, a casting made by this process; -- called also wrought-iron casting.

he progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed. Drayton.

One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.

e common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.

A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways. Mortar bed, a shallow box or receptacle in which mortar is mixed. -- Mortar board. (a) A small square board…

Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style. Byron.

warbler (Geothlypis Philadelphia). The male has the head, neck, and chest, deep ash-gray, mixed with black on the throat and chest; other lower parts are pure yellow.

Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.

Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive. Mud bass (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish (Acantharchum pomotis) of the Eastern United States. It produces a deep grunting note. -- Mud bath, an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for disease. -- Mud boat, a larg…

, In a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture; cloudily; obscurely; confusedly.

To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. F. W. Newman.

To mix in an unitidy and offensive way; to make a mess of. [Prov. Eng.; Colloq. U.S.]

es, they had been myths these twenty years. Ld. Lytton. Myth history, history made of, or mixed with, myths.