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(meddle)

Verb

(meddl)

(obsolete) To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend.

*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:

*:he cut a locke of all their heare, / Which medling with their bloud and earth, he threw / Into the graue.

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*:But after god came to Adam and bad hym knowe his wyf flesshly as nature requyred / Soo lay Adam with his wyf vnder the same tree / and anone the tree whiche was whyte and ful grene as ony grasse and alle that came oute of hit / and in the same tyme that they medled to gyders there was Abel begoten / thus was the tree longe of grene colour

*, II.5.1.v:

*:Take a ram's head that never meddled with an ewe, cut off at a blow, and the horns only taken away, boil it well, skin and wool together.

(senseid)To interfere (in) or (with); to concern oneself with unduly.

*Bible, 2 Kings xiv.10:

*:Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt?

*John Locke

*:The civil lawyershave meddled in a matter that belongs not to them.

(obsolete) To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense.

*Tyndale

*:Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business.

:(Barrow)

Verb

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(peddle)

Verb

(peddl)

To sell things, especially door to door.

* , chapter=3

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}

To sell illegal narcotics.

(derogatory, figuratively) To spread or cause to spread.

* 2009 , Michael John Beashel, Unshackled (page 166)

Christine walked a dangerous line, peddling gossip about her detested son-in-law.

* 2012 , Niamh O'Connor, Taken (page 166)

Roberts was a drug dealer, nicknamed 'King Krud', who peddled death and misery.

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