D defs.my
Entry 9 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Mingle

/mĭng'-gəl/ · Min·gle · IPA /ˈmɪŋ.ɡəl/
01 v. t. 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; …
imp. & p. p. Mingled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mingling
  1. 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. 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. 3.
    To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
    “A mingled, imperfect virtue.” Rogers.
  4. 4.
    To put together; to join.[Obs.]
  5. 5.
    To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
    “[He] proceeded to mingle another draught.” Hawthorne.
02 v. i. To become mixed or blended.
  1. 1.
    To become mixed or blended.
  2. 2.
    To associate (with certain people); as, he's too highfalutin to mingle with working stiffs.
  3. 3.
    To move (among other people); -- of people; as, the president left his car to mingle with the crowd; a host at a a party should mingle with his guests.
03 n. A mixture.
  1. 1.
    A mixture.[Obs.]