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

The act of mixing; mixture.

A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.

he state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound. In the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy. Bacon.

Freedom from mixture; purity. [R.] W. Montagu.

A state of being unmixed; separateness. Sir T. Browne.

A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle.

A crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

A mingling of different things; admixture. Glanvill.

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott.

Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." [Obs.] Smollett.

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.

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 mixture or compound of different things.

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

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.