The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mellay
Mellay \Mel"lay\, n.
A m[^e]l['e]e; a conflict.
--Tennyson.
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mellay
n. (obsolete form of melee English)
Usage examples of "mellay".
Stout arms, no doubt, in a mellay, and good horsemen in the open, but I cannot tell how they will shape in our forest work.
That awoke in him which had sent his forbears rending the Scottish footmen and driving through the mellay at Poictiers.
Somewhere in the mellay a horse kicked him, and for a second or two his senses swam.
And the mellay that was stayed while those lords dealt together in single combat brake forth afresh in that place.
Into the midst of this mad mellay sprang the cavalryman, turning loose his horse, which animal, urged by shrill yells and slyly administered lashings, went tearing away over the prairie.