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To mix; to mingle; to meddle. [Written also medly.] [Obs.] Chaucer.

edients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously. This medley of philosophy and war. Addison. Love is a medley of endearments, jars, Suspicions, reconcilements, wars. W. Walsh.

e kiling of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.

heat of blood, and while under the influence of passion, thus distinguished from chance- medley or killing in self-defense, or in a casual affray. Burrill.

An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time.

A medley; offscourings or rabble.

A mass ccomposed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

Any absurd medley; a hotchpotch. The Mahometan religion, which, being a gallimaufry made up of many, partakes much of the Jewish. South.

A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot. Johnson.

out order or system. Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together, . . . makes a medley and confusion. Locke.

A medley; something droll or extravagant.

s of cooked vegetables with white sauce, sweet jelly with whole fruit, etc. Also, fig., a medley.

See Medle. Johnson.

A mixture; a medley.

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.

ngredients together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water; -- also, a medley. There is also a mixture of good and evil wisely distributed by God, to serve the ends of his providence. Atterbury.

A mixture; a medley. Dryden.

A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley. [Colloq. & Humorous] Selden.

A medley; an olio. [R.] H. Swinburne.

Fig.: A medley of figures; illusive images. "This mental phantasmagoria." Sir W. Scott.