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Meng, v. Also: menge. P.t. mengit, mengȝeit. P.p. mengit, -yt, meyngit; also (only in Douglas) ment. [ME. menge(n (13th c.), e.m.E. menge (1589); p.t. mengten (c 1250), mengede (a 1400), menged (c 1460); p.p. imænged (c 1205), menged (c 1460, 1562), meind (a 1200), meynt (Lydgate), meint (1555), ment (Spenser), OE. mengan, p.t. mengde, ON. menga. Cf. also Ming v. and Meind ppl. a.]Obsolete after the mid 16th c.

1. tr. To mix or mingle (one thing, also, one quality) with or in another; also, to mix or mingle amang others or togidder.(1) a1400 Leg. S. xxxiii. 505.
Thane with wyne mengȝeit he poyson 14.. Acts I. 335/2.
At thai menge corrupt wyn witht hal wyn 1531 Bell. Boece I. xli.
Ilk hous … nurisis ane young tod … and mengis the flesche thairof … with sic meit as thay gif to thair fowlis Ib. II. 257.
The Scottis tuk the jus of mekilwort beryis and mengit it in thair wine(2) 1375 Barb. vi. 360 (C).
This nobill kyng … Mengit [E. Mellyt] all tyme vith vit manheid(3) 1533 Bell. Livy I. 113/5.
He mengit baith the manipillis of Romanis & [the manipillis of] Latynis togiddir Ib. II. 128/19.
For thai mengit ane cumpany of vile and vnworthy persouns amang the nobil persouns of the ciete Id. Boece I. 190. Ib. 265.

b. P.p. Mixed, mingled.Of material and non-material things.(1) a1400 Leg. S. ix. 53.
& fare barbe that sumdele launge is Meyngit with quhyte hare c 1420 Liber Calchou 449.
The best drinkis war calde water mengyt with venegyr or tysane a1450 Fifteen Ois 178. a1500 Henr. Fab. 367 (Asl.).
As fitchis mengit [v.rr. myngit] ar with noble seid 1494 Loutfut MS. 11 b.
And thai man be mengyt in armorie with the v colouris 1542 Treas. Acc. VIII. 142.
For the frenȝeis of gold mengit witht reid silk(b) 1513 Doug. v. xi. 18.
Lyke a bow of diuers hewis ment Ib. ix. i. 36.
A gret rane bowe of diuers hewys ment Ib. xii. Prol. 22.
Purpour sprangis with gold and asure ment(2) a1500 Henr. Fab. 344 (Asl.).
Thy mangery is mengit all with caire Id. Orph. 440 (Asl.). a1499 Contempl. Sinn. 171 (Arund.).
Marcy is mengit [H. mengȝeit] with diuers seir ressonis

c. intr. To become mingled. ?1438 Alex. ii. 9699.
His blude all mengit, he changed hew, His hart into his body grew

2. tr. a. To produce by mixing. b. To entangle.a. c1520-c1535 Nisbet Rev. xvii. 6.
In the drink that scho mengit [P. meddlid] to yow, mex ye doubile to hirb. 1494 Loutfut MS. 28 a.
And doand thus he mengis [Lindsay MS. mengȝeis] the hornes of his heid in sicwis that he remanys tane