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Capable of being mixed.

With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly. Bacon.

The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients. Hooker.

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.

plastering, and in other ways. Mortar bed, a shallow box or receptacle in which mortar is mixed. -- Mortar board. (a) A small square board with a handle beneath, for holding mortar; a hawk. (b) A cap with a broad, projecting, square top; -- worn by students in some colleges. [Slang]

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…

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

2, 1907, and took effect on Easter Apr. 19, 1908. The decree by its terms does not affect mixed marriages (those between Roman Catholics and persons of another faith) in Germany.

crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

thmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed (Norman-French) race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror.

Wine mixed with honey; mead, [R.]

One of the tertiary colors, composed of violet and green mixed in equal strength and proportion.

Mixed with opiates.

A metallic substance, resembling gold in color, but inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; -- called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc.

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth. This mixed system of opinion and sentiment had its origin in the ancient chivalry. Burke.