v. t. To mingle; to mix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cingula, cingulum, fr. cingere to gird. ] A girth. [ R. ] See Surcingle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Commingled p. pr. & vb. n. Commingling ] To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that commingles; specif., a device for noiseless heating of water by steam, in a vessel filled with a porous mass, as of pebbles. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖ pl. Corni Inglesi [ It. ] (Mus.) A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. kringla orb; akin to kring around, and to D. kring circle, and to E. cringe, crank. ] 1. A withe for fastening a gate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of uncertain origin: cf. AS. ding prison; or perh. akin to dimble. ] A narrow dale; a small dell; a small, secluded, and embowered valley. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dangling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Mil.) An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From fangle. ] A trifle. [ Low ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. [ Obs. ] See Jingle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To mingle; to mix; to unite; to blend. [ R. ] Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gael. & Ir. aingeali fire; cf. L. igniculusi spark, dim. of ignis fire. Cf. Ignite. ] Flame; blaze; a fire; a fireplace. [ Obs. or Scot. ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ingle nook, the chimney corner. --
Ingle side,
Ingle cheek, the fireside. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also engle, enghle: cf. Gael. & Ir. aingeal an angel. Cf. Engle. ] A paramour; a favourite; a sweetheart; an engle. [ Obs. ] Toone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cajole or coax; to wheedle. See Engle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To mingle or mix together; to intermix. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be mixed or incorporated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Party and faction will intermingle. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. gingelen, ginglen; prob. akin to E. chink; cf. also E. jangle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To sound with a fine, sharp, rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound; as, sleigh bells jingle. [ Written also gingle. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. “Jingling street ballads.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Jingled p. pr. & vb. n. Jingling ] To cause to give a sharp metallic sound as a little bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A rattling, clinking, or tinkling sound, as of little bells or pieces of metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which makes a jingling sound, as a rattle. [ 1913 Webster ]

If you plant where savages are, do not only entertain them with trifles and jingles, but use them justly. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A correspondence of sound in rhymes, especially when the verse has little merit; hence, a rhyming verse of no poetical merit. “ The least jingle of verse.” Guardian.
The verses used in commercial advertisements are often called jingles, especially when sung. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jingle shell. See Gold shell (b), under Gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, jingles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no king. F. Lieber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A little king; a weak or insignificant king. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of small singing birds of the genus Regulus and family Sylviidæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The golden-crowned kinglet (Regulus satrapa), and the rubycrowned kinglet (Regulus calendula), are the most common American species. The common English kinglet (Regulus cristatus) is also called golden-crested wren, moonie, and marigold finch. The kinglets are often popularly called wrens, both in America and England.

n. See Lingel. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having no meaning; of no value; as, a meaningless endeavor; a meaningless life; a meaningless explanation. Opposite of meaningful. [ Narrower terms: insignificant ; mindless, unmeaning ; nonsense(prenominal), nonsensical ; pointless, purposeless ] Also See: insignificant, unimportant, purposeless, unimportant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was . . . fire mingled with the hail. Ex. ix. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry. [ 1913 Webster ]

The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. Ezra ix. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. [ 1913 Webster ]

A mingled, imperfect virtue. Rogers. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To put together; to join. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To become mixed or blended. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To associate (with certain people); as, he's too highfalutin to mingle with working stiffs. [ PJC ]

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. [ PJC ]

n. A mixture. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That can be mingled. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Confusedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Reduplicated fr. mingle. ] To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. [ Obs. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hotchpotch. [ Obs. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of mingling, or the state of being mixed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who mingles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perhaps fr. pin to impound. ] A small piece of inclosed ground. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of men engaged in the violation of law or in an illegal enterprise, as rioters, mutineers, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ringleaders were apprehended, tried, fined, and imprisoned. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The ringed dotterel, or ring plover. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ring + -let. ] 1. A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring. [ 1913 Webster ]

You demi-puppets, that
By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make,
Whereof the ewe not bites. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A curl; especially, a curl of hair. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Her golden tresses ] in wanton ringlets waved. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prob. from Norw. singl, singling, coarse gravel, small round stones. ] (Geol.) Round, water-worn, and loose gravel and pebbles, or a collection of roundish stones, such as are common on the seashore and elsewhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. shingle, shindle, fr. L. scindula, scandula; cf. scindere to cleave, to split, E. shed, v. t., Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, shingle, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to slit. ] 1. A piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below. [ 1913 Webster ]

I reached St. Asaph, . . . where there is a very poor cathedral church covered with shingles or tiles. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sign for an office or a shop; as, to hang out one's shingle. [ Jocose, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Shingle oak (Bot.), a kind of oak (Quercus imbricaria) used in the Western States for making shingles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shingled p. pr. & vb. n. Shingling ] 1. To cover with shingles; as, to shingle a roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

They shingle their houses with it. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cut, as hair, so that the ends are evenly exposed all over the head, as shingles on a roof. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To subject to the process of shindling, as a mass of iron from the pudding furnace. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who shingles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A machine for shingling puddled iron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cengle a girth, F. sangle, fr. L. cingulum a girdle, fr. cingere to gird. Cf. Cincture, Cingle, Surcingle. ] (Med.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. singulus, a dim. from the root in simplex simple; cf. OE. & OF. sengle, fr. L. singulus. See Simple, and cf. Singular. ] 1. One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star. [ 1913 Webster ]

No single man is born with a right of controlling the opinions of all the rest. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Alone; having no companion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who single hast maintained,
Against revolted multitudes, the cause
Of truth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Single chose to live, and shunned to wed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat. [ 1913 Webster ]

These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant, . . .
Who now defles thee thrice ti single fight. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Uncompounded; pure; unmixed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Simple ideas are opposed to complex, and single to compound. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere. [ 1913 Webster ]

I speak it with a single heart. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Single ale,
Single beer, or
Single drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [ Obs. ] Nares. --
Single bill (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a penalty. Burril. --
Single court (Lawn Tennis), a court laid out for only two players. --
Single-cut file. See the Note under 4th File. --
Single entry. See under Bookkeeping. --
Single file. See under 1st File. --
Single flower (Bot.), a flower with but one set of petals, as a wild rose. --
Single knot. See Illust. under Knot. --
Single whip (Naut.), a single rope running through a fixed block. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Singled p. pr. & vb. n. Singling ] 1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

His blood! she faintly screamed her mind
Still singling one from all mankind. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To sequester; to withdraw; to retire. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An agent singling itself from consorts. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To take alone, or one by one. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men . . . commendable when they are singled. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take the irrregular gait called single-foot; -- said of a horse. See Single-foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many very fleet horses, when overdriven, adopt a disagreeable gait, which seems to be a cross between a pace and a trot, in which the two legs of one side are raised almost but not quite, simultaneously. Such horses are said to single, or to be single-footed. W. S. Clark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A unit; one; as, to score a single. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A handful of gleaned grain. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law Tennis) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Baseball) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast. [ 1913 Webster ]