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▪ I. † meld, v.1 Obs.
Also 4 meild.
[OE. meldian, meldan = OS. meldon (Du. melden), OHG. meldôn, meldên (MHG., mod.G. melden):—WGer. *melþōjan, -ējan, f. *melþā n. fem. (OHG. melda, OE. meld), information, announcement. Cf. OE. melda informer, betrayer.]
trans. To speak of, show forth, make known. Also, to inform (a person) of.
a1000Riddles xxix. 12 (Gr.) Þonne æfter deaþe deman onginneð, meldan mislice. c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) cxxxiv. 16 Þa muð habbeð, and ne meldiað wiht. a1300Cursor M. 27830 O couaitise..cums..strenth, þat lauerding agh to meild, þat o þair men tas wrangwis yeild. c1325Old Age 3 in E.E.P. (1862) 148 Eld nul meld no murþes of mai. c1325Metr. Hom. 42 My consciens gan me meld. Ibid. 166 Dede war me leuer to be, Than thou of my dede melded me.
▪ II. meld, v.2 and n. Cards.|mɛld|
[app. ad. G. melden: see prec.]
trans. In the game of pinocle and other card games, esp. canasta and rummy: Equivalent to declare v. in bezique. Also as v. intr. Hence meld n., a group of cards to be melded; ˈmelding vbl. n.
1897Foster's Compl. Hoyle 361 The various combinations which are declared during the play of the hand are called melds. Ibid. 363 A player has melded and scored four kings, and on winning another trick he melds binocle. 1952Times Rev. Year 1 Jan. p. v/2 Canasta has begun to influence the language, if slightly. It has spread the use of natural..as a noun, and figurative jobs have been found for meld, a combination of three or more cards of the same rank. 1958‘J. Welcome’ Run for Cover iv. 83 He melded several more times—small melds which did not look dangerous from a canasta point of view. 1964A. Wykes Gambling vii. 163 In most card games, players aim either to make specific card combinations (or ‘melds’) as in rummy, or to take tricks, as in whist. Ibid. 164 Games in which ‘melding’ (making specific combinations of cards) is a basic principle. These are the rummy games, which include all forms of poker.
▪ III. meld, v.3 orig. and chiefly U.S.|mɛld|
[perh. a blend of melt v.1 and weld v.; but cf. E.D.D. melder entanglement, mental confusion; meldered, mixed, entangled.]
trans. and intr. To merge, blend; to combine, incorporate. Hence as n. and ˈmelding vbl. n.
1939New Yorker 23 Sept. 31 (Advt.), Schenley's exclusive process—melding—which ‘marries’ the whiskey blend so perfectly that it retains its rich flavor. 1952N.Y. Times 18 Jan. 4/6 (citing W. S. Churchill's Address to U.S. Congress) What matters most is not the form of fusion, or melding—a word I learned over here. 1952Time 29 Dec. 37/1 Taylor hopes to remodel the entire museum... He has plans to meld his eleven departments into five. 1959M. Steen Tower i. iii. 50 Our small..existence couldn't meld with his design for living. 1960S. Plath Colossus (1967) 14 Then I was seeing A melding of shapes in a hot rain. 1971Nat. Geographic Oct. 560/2 Then clouds and gray sea melded and a steady rain slanted across the dry sides of the island. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Aug. 911/5 The craft..of melding brisk jollity with real death. 1974Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 21 Apr. A6 (Advt.), A lovely cushioned group that offers a compatible meld of Ivy Leaves and light scrollwork. 1975New Yorker 19 May 12/3 Jones' meld of traditional techniques with radical conceptions is in itself a radical conception, and gives the photographs their special, quiet interestingness. |