Dell vs Mell - What's the difference?
dell | mell |
valley
* 1794, , lines 49-50
* Tickell
(obsolete) A young woman; a wench.
* Ben Jonson
(archaic) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
*c. 1495 , (John Skelton), "Vppon a deedman's hed":
*:For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell .
* 1819 , , Ivanhoe , ch. 32,
(obsolete) honey
* Warner
As a proper noun dell
is .As an adjective mell is
soft.dell
English
Noun
(en noun)- To this day they dwell
- In a lonely dell .
- In dells and dales, concealed from human sight.
- Sweet doxies and dells .
Synonyms
* dale * dingle * vale * valley * See alsomell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) melen, .Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mellen, from (etyl) meller, , (l).Verb
(en verb)- “By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee, sir lazy lover, to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there!”
Etymology 3
See mellifluous.Noun
(-)- Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell , nor gall.