Jell vs Mell - What's the difference?
jell | mell |
To gel
* {{quote-journal
, date = 2008-12-05
, first = Elizabeth
, last = Pennisi
, title = Hopping to a Better Protein
, journal =
, doi = 10.1126/science.322.5907.1454
, issn = 0036-8075
, url = http://www.sciencemag.org/content/322/5907/1454.full
, passage = A lot of things are jelling , says Hoffman.
}}
(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 noun jell
is a jelly or gel.As a verb jell
is to gel.As an adjective mell is
soft.jell
English
Verb
(en verb)mell
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.