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Jelled vs Melled - What's the difference?

jelled | melled |

As verbs the difference between jelled and melled

is that jelled is past tense of jell while melled is past tense of mell.

jelled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (jell)

    • jell

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a jelly or gel

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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. }}

    melled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mell)

    • mell

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) melen, .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To speak; converse; tell; say.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Discourse; conversation.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mellen, from (etyl) meller, , (l).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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,
    • “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

    (-)
  • (obsolete) honey
  • * Warner
    • Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell , nor gall.
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