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Mingling

Mingle \Min"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mingling.] [From OE. mengen, AS. mengan; akin to D. & G. mengen, Icel. menga, also to E. among, and possibly to mix. Cf. Among, Mongrel.]

  1. To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.

    There was . . . fire mingled with the hail.
    --Ex. ix. 24.

  2. To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.

    The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands.
    --Ezra ix. 2.

  3. To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.

    A mingled, imperfect virtue.
    --Rogers.

  4. To put together; to join. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

  5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.

    [He] proceeded to mingle another draught.
    --Hawthorne.

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mingling

vb. (present participle of mingle English)

WordNet
mingling
  1. adj. combining or mixing [syn: blending, merging]

  2. n. the action of people mingling and coming into contact; "all the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties"

Usage examples of "mingling".

Where neither avarice, cunning, pride, nor care, Had stamped the seal of gray deformity On all the mingling lineaments of time.

Faster and faster, vying with one another, they moved at the double or at a trot, vanishing amid the clouds of dust they raised and making the air ring with a deafening roar of mingling shouts.

Now shone upon the forest, one vast mass Of mingling shade, whose brown magnificence A narrow vale embosoms.

Dim tracts and vast, robed in the lustrous gloom Of leaden-coloured even, and fiery hills Mingling their flames with twilight, on the verge Of the remote horizon.

Like two dark serpents tangled in the dust, Which on the paths of men their mingling poison thrust.

Her eyes, mingling with mine, might soon have fed My soul with their own joy.

Half sense, half thought, among the darkness stirs, Breathed from their wormy beds all living things around, And mingling with the still night and mute sky Its awful hush is felt inaudibly.

Fierce war and mingling combat, and the fame Of glorious deeds, to heed thy gentle flame.

A desire for action, for mingling with his fellow-men, had arisen in his heart.

He declared indeed that his love for her was not an absorbing passion like his first, but a mingling of pity, admiration, and that tenderness which his warm heart was ever ready to bestow.

Ethel, in the first flower of her loveliness, mingling with, and outshining, every other beauty of her country.

Her personal vanity was satisfied when Villiers was pleased, and, for the rest, she was glad to improve her mind, and to wear away the timidity, which she felt that her lonely education had induced, by mingling with the best society of her country.

He could see puffs of musketry smoke that seemed to chase one another down the hillsides, and clouds of cannon smoke rolling, spreading, and mingling with one another.

In the midst of his explanation shouts were heard from the army, growing more incoherent and more diffused, mingling with music and songs and coming from the field where the review was held.

The first shots had not yet ceased to reverberate before others rang out and yet more were heard mingling with and overtaking one another.