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

One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.

Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n.

To mix; to mingle, to temper. [Obs.] Shak.

To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon.

One who meddles with, or intrudes into, the affairs of others. Swift.

Inclined or disposed to intermeddle. -- In`ter*med"dle*some*ness, n.

To meddle unduly.

To work in slight or superficial manner; to do in a small way; to tamper; to meddle. "Dabbling here and there with the text." Atterbury. During the ferst year at Dumfries, Burns for the ferst time began to dabble in politics. J. C. Shairp.

One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler. "our dabblers in politics." Swift.

To interfere; to intermeddle. [Obs.] Chaucer.

a Executor de son tort Etym: [Of., executor of his own wrong] (Law), a stranger who intermeddles without authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person.

irit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon. The fourth kind of spirit [is] called the Fairy. K. James. And now about the caldron sing, Like elves and fairies in a ring. Shak.

To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with. Let the papers lie; You would be fingering them to anger me. Shak.

A cotquean; a man who intermeddles with women's concerns.

To enter into, or take a part in, the concerns of others; to intermeddle; to interpose. To interfere with party disputes. Swift. There was no room for anyone to interfere with his own opinions. Bp. Warburton.

of interfering; as, the stoppage of a machine by the interference of some of its parts; a meddlesome interference in the business of others.

the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle.

To intermeddle; to intermix. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. Busy meddlers with intrigues of state. Pomfret.