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An implement for shaking or mixing.

An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

A mixed metal composed mainly of brass, formerly used for various utensils; hence, a trumpet. [Obs.] Put to their mouths the sounding alchemy. Milton.

of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.

An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture.

or process of ascertaining the strength of alkalies, or the quantity present in alkaline mixtures.

To mix (metals); to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. [Archaic] Fuller.

A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values.

Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

A mixture or compound of different things.

To compound or mix, as quicksilver, with another metal; to unite, combine, or alloy with mercury.

; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure.

An explosive consisting of a mixture of powdered aluminium and nitrate of ammonium.

Mixed or mingled; surrounded by. They heard, And from his presence hid themselves among The thickest trees. Milton.

Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures. Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone.

A product of gastric digestion, a mixture of hemipeptone and antipeptone.

Any of eight isomeric liquid compounds, C5H11OH; ordinarily, a mixture of two of these forming a colorless liquid with a peculiar cough-exciting odor and burning taste, the chief constituent of fusel oil. It is used as a source of amyl compounds, such as amyl acetate, amyl nitrite, etc.

the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

See under Facial. -- Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure. -- Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line. -- Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. -- Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90º. -- Optic angle. See und…