3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Meddle  \Med"dle\,  v.  t. 
  To  mix;  to  mingle.  [Obs.]  --Chaucer. 
 
  ``Wine  meddled  with  gall.''  --Wyclif 
  (Matt.  xxvii. 
  34). 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Meddle  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  meddle 
  v  :  intrude  in  other  people's  affairs  or  business;  interfere 
  unwantedly;  "Don't  meddle  in  my  affairs!"  [syn:  {tamper}] 

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