mixture (mikstur)

[ The mixture of those things by speech which by nature are divided is the mother of all error. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, iii. 3. 3807 mixture. See chemical combination, under chemical. Mixture of colors. See color. Oxford mixture, woolen cloth of a very dark gray color. Also called Oxford gray, pepper - and - salt, and thunder-and-lightning. - Prince's mixture, a dark kind of snuff scented with attar of roses. Rule of mixtures. Same as alligation, 2. =Syn. 2. Mixture, Miscellany, Medley, Farrago, Hotchpotch, Jumble; variety, diversity. Mixture is a general term denoting a compound of two or more ingredients, more often, but not nece arily, congruous. Miscellany is a collection of things not closely connected, but brought together by rational design: "A miscellany has the diversity without the incongruity of a medley." (C. J. Smith, Syn. Disc., p. 564.) Specifically, a miscellany is a collection of independent literary pieces, the unity lying only in their general character. A medley is a mixture or collection of things distinctly incongruous: the word has the specific sense of a song or tune made up of scraps of other songs or tunes ingeniously and amusingly fitted together. Farrago emphasizes the confusion or indiscriminatene of the mixture or collection: it is applied chiefly to printed or spoken discourse. Hotch potch is a still more energetic expre ion of the confusion of the collection, the idea being drawn from the boiling together of shreds of all sorts of food. Jumble implies the idea of a heap turned over and over till everything is hopele ly mixed. The figurative uses correspond e entially to the literal. Pure from pa ion's mixture rude, Ever to base earth allied. Lowell, Comm. Ode. The world lies no longer a dull miscellany and lumber room, but has form and order. Emerson , Misc., p. 94. The sun was in the west when we left Jellalabad with its strange medley of a ociations, and strolled back through the gardens to the camp. Arch. Forbes, Souvenirs of some Continents, p. 202. I've heard, I confe , with no little surprise English history call'd a farrago of lies. Barham, In golds by Legends, II. 338. A mash'd heap, a hotchpotch of the slain. Dryden , tr. of Juvenal's Satires, iii. 415. The Alhambra is a jumble of buildings, with irregular tiled roofs, and absolutely plain, rough, uncolored walls on the exterior. C. D. Warner , Roundabout Journey, p. 247. mixture-stop (miks'tur-stop), n. See mix 2. That which results from mixing; a mixed ma , body, or a emblage; a compound or combination of different ingredients, parts, or principles; specifically, in phar., a preparation in duplication of mixt.] Promiscuously mingled. ts, or prin which insoluble substances are suspended in watery fluids by means of gum arabic, sugar, the yolk of eggs, or other viscid matter. When the suspended substance is of an oleaginous nature, the mixture is properly called an emul sion. U. S. Dispensatory. Whanne ze wole drawe the toon fro that othir, putte al that mixture into a strong watir maad of vitriol and of sal Book of Quinte E ence (ed. Furnivall), p. 9. petre. What if this mixture do not work at all? Shak., R. and J., iv. 3. 21. ture , 5. mixt us, n. See mist us . mixty-maxty (miks'ti-maks'ti), a. [A var. re- Also mixtie- maxtie . [Scotch.] Yon mixtie - maxtie , queer hotch-potch, The Coalition. Burns , Prayer to the Scotch Representatives. See mizzen . mizen, n. mizmaze (miz'māz), n. [A varied reduplication of mazel .] 1. A confused maze; a labyrinth. The clue to lead them through the mizz - maze of variety of opinions and authors to truth. Locke , Conduct of the Understanding, § 20. Unle he had repeated that verbal mizmaze of the con Society, in the modern acceptation of a miscellaneous vention. mixture, which equalizes men even in their inequality,... The American , VIII. 308. opened that wider stage which a growing metropolis only 2. Confusion; bewilderment. could exhibit. I. D'Israeli , Amen. of Lit., II. 351. 3. Admixture; something mingled or added. The wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation. Rev. xiv. 10. His acts were some virtuous, some politick, some just, some pious; and yet all these not without some mixture of Vice. Baker, Chronicles, p. 11. There's no great Wit without some Mixture of Madne , Howell, Letters, I. v. 16. so saith the Philosopher. 4. In chem., a blending of several ingredients without chemical alteration of the substances, each of which still retains its own nature and properties: distinguished from combination, in which the substances unite by chemical attraction, lose their distinct properties, and form a compound differing in its properties from any of the ingredients.-5. In organ - building, a flues top having two or more pipes to each , the pipes being so tuned as to give certain sets of the shriller harmonics of the fundamental tone of the ; a compound stop. The stop is known as "of two ranks," "of three ranks," etc., according to the number of pipes to a . The harmonics chosen for reinforcement vary with the pitch of the fundamental tone, a low tone being provided with higher harmonics than a high one. The points in the compa where changes from one set of harmonics to another take place are called breaks. The harmonics usually chosen are those that lie at the intervals of fifths or octaves from the fundamental tone, rarely at those of thirds or sevenths. Mixtures serve two purposes: to enrich the total effect of heavy combinations by reinforcing the brilliant overtones of the harmony, and to emphasize the upper tones of heavy chords by reinforcing their nearer harmonics. They are never properly used except in combination with foundation-stops. Mixtures are variously named, as cornet, furniture, etc. 6. A cloth of variegated or mottled coloring, usually of sober tints.-7. In printing, typesetting that calls for the use of three or more distinct faces or faces and bodies of type. [Eng.]-8. Same as krasis. - Brown mixture. See brown.-Deflagrating mixtures. See deflagrate. I was all of a mizmaze - I was all in bewilderment. Parish's Su ex Glo ary. ( Davies.)