\Med"dle`\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Meddled}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Meddling}.] [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F.
m[^e]ler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. ? See
{Mix}, and cf. {Medley}, {Mellay}.]
1. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]
         More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts.
                                               --Shak.
2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- ? a
   good sense. [Obs.] --Barrow.
         Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own
         business.                             --Tyndale.
3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or
   impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly
   with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub
   another's property without permission; -- often followed
   by with or in.
         Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? --2 Kings xiv.
                                               10.
         The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter
         that belongs not to them.             --Locke.
{To meddle and make}, to intrude one's self into another
   person's concerns. [Archaic] --Shak.
Syn: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.

\Med"dle\, v. t.
To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
      ``Wine meddled with gall.''              --Wyclif
                                               (Matt. xxvii.
                                               34).