Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MIN'GLE, v.t. [Sax. mengan or mencgan; G. and D. mengen. This word seems to be a derivative from G. menge, Sax. menigo, a multitude, or from the same root. Hence among signifies mingled, or in the crowd.]

1. To mix; to blend; to unite in one body; as, to mingle liquors of different kinds.
2. To mix or blend without order or promiscuously. There was fire mingled with hail. – Ex. ix.
3. To compound; to unite in a mass, as solid substances; as, to mingle flour, sugar and eggs in cookery.
4. To join in mutual intercourse or in society. The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. Ezra ix. Ps. cvi.
5. To contaminate; to render impure; to debase by mixture. The best of us appear contented with a mingled imperfect virtue. Rogers.
6. To confuse. There mingle broils. Milton.