mellayn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈmɛleɪ/, U.S.

/ˈmɛleɪ/, Scottish English

/ˈmɛlɪ/

Forms: Middle English mele, Middle English mellee, Middle English 1800s– melley, Middle English–1500s melle, Middle English–1500s mely, Middle English–1500s (1800s irregular) melly, 1500s mella', 1500s mellie, 1500s mellye, 1500s 1800s– mellay; Scottish pre-1700 malay, pre-1700 mealȝie, pre-1700 melay, pre-1700 mella, pre-1700 mellais (plural), pre-1700 mellay, pre-1700 mellaye, pre-1700 melle, pre-1700 mellee, pre-1700 melley, pre-1700 mellie, pre-1700 melly, pre-1700 myllay, pre-1700 1800s– mellay, 1700s meally.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mellee.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French mellee, meslee (see medley n. and adj.). Compare post-classical Latin meslea fight, brawl (from 12th cent. in British sources), mellea , melleta , melletum fight, brawl (from late 12th cent. in British sources), woollen cloth of variegated colours (from 1326 in British sources). Compare mêlée n.

A. n.

†1.

a. A cloth made of wools dyed in different shades or colours and mixed before being spun. Cf. medley n. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [noun] > multicoloured

mellay1341

motley1371

marvel1543

marble1555

verry1603

mixture1682

mixed cloth1696

1341 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 4 (MED) Lego Marotae servienti meæ unum warniamente de melle.

1359 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 71 (MED) Tunicam..cum capucio de melly.

1381–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 592 In di. panno de Melle.

1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 37 (MED) A Hewk of grene and other melly parted.

1587 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 118 iij yeardes white mella', xijs.

1593 Brechin Test. I. f. 108 Tua kirtillis ane of mellay and ane vther of russett.

1631 Edinb. Test. LV. f. 136^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mella(y Twelf elles of camlit mealȝie, pryce thairof xij lib.

b. = maslin n.¹ 1. Cf. medley n. 4. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > brass > types of

maslinOE

latten1340

messing1371

orichalcc1429

shruff1541

black latten1545

mellay1545

medley brass1600

medley1601

shaven latten1660

latten-brass1677

brass-latten1678

similor1778

pig brass1841

Muntz metal1842

button brass1849

oreide1857

voltaic brass1860

semilor1866

naval brass1881

1545 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 56 A mellay pot with a kylp, a chaffer, a brewyng leyyd [etc.].

†2. Scottish. A mixture (in quot. a1400: (perhaps) a balanced mixture); a hotchpotch. Cf. medley n. 8. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture

mingingOE

mungc1175

meddlingc1384

mellaya1400

mixture?a1425

commixtion?a1439

medley1440

brothc1515

mingly1545

mingle1548

maslin1574

miscellane1582

commixture1590

flaumpaump1593

salad1603

miscellany1609

common1619

cento1625

misturea1626

mixtil1654

concrete1656

contemperation1664

ragout1672

crasis1677

alloy1707

mixtible1750

galimatias1762

misc.1851

syllabub1859

mixtry1862

cocktail1868

blend1883

admix1908

mix-up1918

mix1959

meld1973

katogo1994

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 10 Þe medlynge of qualitees is fer drawen from þe contrariouste of þe same elementis, & so complexioun is nyȝ brouȝt to a mele [v.r. mene; L. medium].

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 404 Syne of the tunnys the hedis out-strak, A foull melle thair can he mak.

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. d^v Al thus with murnyng and myrth thai maid melle.

3. A battle or engagement at close quarters; fighting, esp. hand-to-hand fighting; spec. a tournament involving two groups of combatants; a hand-to-hand fight. Also: †a quarrel, dispute (obsolete). Cf. medley n. 1, mêlée n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun]

fightOE

skirmingc1275

medleyc1330

mellinga1375

strugglingc1386

mellayc1400

meddlinga1450

skirmerya1500

stightlinga1500

debatea1533

camping?1549

scrambling1598

scuffling1599

duel1764

tussling1844

scrapping1891

bopping1958

society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight

bicker1297

fightc1300

tirpeilc1330

ragea1393

stradec1400

intermell1489

cockfighta1513

skirm1534

bustle1579

pell-mellc1586

brabble1587

jostle1607

scufflea1616

counterbuff1632

mêléea1648

roil1690

tussle1749

scrimmage1780

turn-up1810

scrape1812

pounding match1815

mellay1819

struggle1840

mix-up1841

scrap1846

rough-up1891

turn-to1893

push and shove1895

bagarre1897

stoush1908

dogfight1910

bundle1936

sort-out1937

yike1940

bassa-bassa1956

punch-up1958

thump-up1967

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 342 (MED) I be-seche now..Þis melly mot be myne.

a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) 505 (MED) Wo so flites or turnes ogayne, He bygins al þe melle.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 120 Thar wes gret melleis twa or thre.

?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 94 Wictour he is at all melle.

1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cii^* Thair mailyeis with melle thay merkit in the medis.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. x. 5 Als sone as was this gret melly begunne, The erd littit wyth blude.

?1594 W. Fowler Wks. (1936) II. 184 In time of mellay, and battell.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xv. 302 The love of battle is the food upon which we live—the dust of the mellay is the breath of our nostrils!

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 118 As here and everywhere He rode the mellay, lord of the ringing lists.

1868 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea IV. v. 193 So that Russians..and men of the Scots Greys and men of the 5th Dragoon Guards, were here forced and crowded together in one indiscriminate melley.

1881 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People I. iv. ii. 419 The Welshmen stabbed the French horses in the melly.

1931 J. Buchan Blanket of Dark x. 183 I for one am in no mood for a mellay.

1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xi You have stood by many killings, in single combats or in mellays; but never have you seen one gruesome as ours.

1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xii. 236 For the moment they seemed much preoccupied with the mellay still gathering impetus in the lane.

†B. adj.

Of a mixed or variegated colour or weave. Cf. medley n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective]

fawa700

medleyc1350

freckledc1380

motleyc1380

pied1382

specked1382

vary1382

partyc1385

parted1393

peckleda1400

polymitec1425

sere-colouredc1425

vairc1425

discoloured?1440

motleyed1447

varying1488

sheld1507

fleckered1508

piet1508

mellay1515

particoloured1530

pickled1552

varied1578

mingled1580

partly coloured1582

chequered1592

medley-coloured1593

mingle-coloured1593

piebald1594

feathered1610

changeable1612

particolour1612

enamelled1613

variousa1618

pie-coloured1619

jaspered1620

gangean1623

versicolour1628

patchwork1634

damasked1648

variously-coloureda1660

variegateda1661

agated1665

varicoloured1665

damaska1674

various-coloureda1711

pieted1721

versicoloured1721

diversicoloured1756

mosaic1776

harlequin1779

spanged1788

calico1807

piety1811

varied-coloured1811

discolorate1826

heterochromous1842

jaspé1851

discolor1859

discolorous1860

jasperoid1876

damascened1879

heterochromatic1895

variotinted1903

batik1914

varihued1921

rumbled1930

damasky1931

pepper-and-salt1940

partihued1959

1515 Will of Raynolde West (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/18) f. 114^v My mely tawny gowne.

1551 MS Rec. Aberdeen XXI in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 257/1 The price litting of the stane of mellay hew xxxii sh.

1551 MS Rec. Aberdeen XXIV in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 257/1 Ane mella kirtill.

1558 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 173 It'm I giue to my curate..my mellye gowne.

1625 Edinb. Test. LIII. f. 136^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mella(y Mellay claith.

1629 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (1966) 42 Three yeardes & halfe of melley Kersey at five shillings a yeard.

a1706 A. Reid Autobiogr. (1822) 55 Putting on a meally coat of my uncle's.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mellay
释义	mellayn.adj. Brit. /ˈmɛleɪ/, U.S. /ˈmɛleɪ/, Scottish English /ˈmɛlɪ/ Forms: Middle English mele, Middle English mellee, Middle English 1800s– melley, Middle English–1500s melle, Middle English–1500s mely, Middle English–1500s (1800s irregular) melly, 1500s mella', 1500s mellie, 1500s mellye, 1500s 1800s– mellay; Scottish pre-1700 malay, pre-1700 mealȝie, pre-1700 melay, pre-1700 mella, pre-1700 mellais (plural), pre-1700 mellay, pre-1700 mellaye, pre-1700 melle, pre-1700 mellee, pre-1700 melley, pre-1700 mellie, pre-1700 melly, pre-1700 myllay, pre-1700 1800s– mellay, 1700s meally. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French mellee. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French mellee, meslee (see medley n. and adj.). Compare post-classical Latin meslea fight, brawl (from 12th cent. in British sources), mellea , melleta , melletum fight, brawl (from late 12th cent. in British sources), woollen cloth of variegated colours (from 1326 in British sources). Compare mêlée n. A. n. †1. a. A cloth made of wools dyed in different shades or colours and mixed before being spun. Cf. medley n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [noun] > multicoloured mellay1341 motley1371 marvel1543 marble1555 verry1603 mixture1682 mixed cloth1696 1341 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 4 (MED) Lego Marotae servienti meæ unum warniamente de melle. 1359 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 71 (MED) Tunicam..cum capucio de melly. 1381–4 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 592 In di. panno de Melle. 1418 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 37 (MED) A Hewk of grene and other melly parted. 1587 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 118 iij yeardes white mella', xijs. 1593 Brechin Test. I. f. 108 Tua kirtillis ane of mellay and ane vther of russett. 1631 Edinb. Test. LV. f. 136^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mella(y Twelf elles of camlit mealȝie, pryce thairof xij lib. b. = maslin n.¹ 1. Cf. medley n. 4. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > brass > types of maslinOE latten1340 messing1371 orichalcc1429 shruff1541 black latten1545 mellay1545 medley brass1600 medley1601 shaven latten1660 latten-brass1677 brass-latten1678 similor1778 pig brass1841 Muntz metal1842 button brass1849 oreide1857 voltaic brass1860 semilor1866 naval brass1881 1545 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 56 A mellay pot with a kylp, a chaffer, a brewyng leyyd [etc.]. †2. Scottish. A mixture (in quot. a1400: (perhaps) a balanced mixture); a hotchpotch. Cf. medley n. 8. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > a mixture mingingOE mungc1175 meddlingc1384 mellaya1400 mixture?a1425 commixtion?a1439 medley1440 brothc1515 mingly1545 mingle1548 maslin1574 miscellane1582 commixture1590 flaumpaump1593 salad1603 miscellany1609 common1619 cento1625 misturea1626 mixtil1654 concrete1656 contemperation1664 ragout1672 crasis1677 alloy1707 mixtible1750 galimatias1762 misc.1851 syllabub1859 mixtry1862 cocktail1868 blend1883 admix1908 mix-up1918 mix1959 meld1973 katogo1994 a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 10 Þe medlynge of qualitees is fer drawen from þe contrariouste of þe same elementis, & so complexioun is nyȝ brouȝt to a mele [v.r. mene; L. medium]. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 404 Syne of the tunnys the hedis out-strak, A foull melle thair can he mak. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. d^v Al thus with murnyng and myrth thai maid melle. 3. A battle or engagement at close quarters; fighting, esp. hand-to-hand fighting; spec. a tournament involving two groups of combatants; a hand-to-hand fight. Also: †a quarrel, dispute (obsolete). Cf. medley n. 1, mêlée n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] fightOE skirmingc1275 medleyc1330 mellinga1375 strugglingc1386 mellayc1400 meddlinga1450 skirmerya1500 stightlinga1500 debatea1533 camping?1549 scrambling1598 scuffling1599 duel1764 tussling1844 scrapping1891 bopping1958 society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > [noun] > a fight bicker1297 fightc1300 tirpeilc1330 ragea1393 stradec1400 intermell1489 cockfighta1513 skirm1534 bustle1579 pell-mellc1586 brabble1587 jostle1607 scufflea1616 counterbuff1632 mêléea1648 roil1690 tussle1749 scrimmage1780 turn-up1810 scrape1812 pounding match1815 mellay1819 struggle1840 mix-up1841 scrap1846 rough-up1891 turn-to1893 push and shove1895 bagarre1897 stoush1908 dogfight1910 bundle1936 sort-out1937 yike1940 bassa-bassa1956 punch-up1958 thump-up1967 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 342 (MED) I be-seche now..Þis melly mot be myne. a1425 (?c1350) Ywain & Gawain (1964) 505 (MED) Wo so flites or turnes ogayne, He bygins al þe melle. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvii. 120 Thar wes gret melleis twa or thre. ?1507 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 94 Wictour he is at all melle. 1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cii^* Thair mailyeis with melle thay merkit in the medis. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. x. 5 Als sone as was this gret melly begunne, The erd littit wyth blude. ?1594 W. Fowler Wks. (1936) II. 184 In time of mellay, and battell. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe II. xv. 302 The love of battle is the food upon which we live—the dust of the mellay is the breath of our nostrils! 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 118 As here and everywhere He rode the mellay, lord of the ringing lists. 1868 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea IV. v. 193 So that Russians..and men of the Scots Greys and men of the 5th Dragoon Guards, were here forced and crowded together in one indiscriminate melley. 1881 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People I. iv. ii. 419 The Welshmen stabbed the French horses in the melly. 1931 J. Buchan Blanket of Dark x. 183 I for one am in no mood for a mellay. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xi You have stood by many killings, in single combats or in mellays; but never have you seen one gruesome as ours. 1977 ‘E. Crispin’ Glimpses of Moon xii. 236 For the moment they seemed much preoccupied with the mellay still gathering impetus in the lane. †B. adj. Of a mixed or variegated colour or weave. Cf. medley n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] fawa700 medleyc1350 freckledc1380 motleyc1380 pied1382 specked1382 vary1382 partyc1385 parted1393 peckleda1400 polymitec1425 sere-colouredc1425 vairc1425 discoloured?1440 motleyed1447 varying1488 sheld1507 fleckered1508 piet1508 mellay1515 particoloured1530 pickled1552 varied1578 mingled1580 partly coloured1582 chequered1592 medley-coloured1593 mingle-coloured1593 piebald1594 feathered1610 changeable1612 particolour1612 enamelled1613 variousa1618 pie-coloured1619 jaspered1620 gangean1623 versicolour1628 patchwork1634 damasked1648 variously-coloureda1660 variegateda1661 agated1665 varicoloured1665 damaska1674 various-coloureda1711 pieted1721 versicoloured1721 diversicoloured1756 mosaic1776 harlequin1779 spanged1788 calico1807 piety1811 varied-coloured1811 discolorate1826 heterochromous1842 jaspé1851 discolor1859 discolorous1860 jasperoid1876 damascened1879 heterochromatic1895 variotinted1903 batik1914 varihued1921 rumbled1930 damasky1931 pepper-and-salt1940 partihued1959 1515 Will of Raynolde West (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/18) f. 114^v My mely tawny gowne. 1551 MS Rec. Aberdeen XXI in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 257/1 The price litting of the stane of mellay hew xxxii sh. 1551 MS Rec. Aberdeen XXIV in Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (1880) III. 257/1 Ane mella kirtill. 1558 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 173 It'm I giue to my curate..my mellye gowne. 1625 Edinb. Test. LIII. f. 136^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mella(y Mellay claith. 1629 in M. Cash Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Cent. (1966) 42 Three yeardes & halfe of melley Kersey at five shillings a yeard. a1706 A. Reid Autobiogr. (1822) 55 Putting on a meally coat of my uncle's. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † mellayv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: mellay n. Etymology: < mellay n. Scottish. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To struggle, contend; = mell v.¹ 1b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] fightc900 to bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle1297 to do battle1297 to give battle1297 strive13.. battle1330 to instore a battle1382 fettlec1400 pugnec1425 toilc1425 to deliver battle1433 conflict?a1475 bargain1487 mellaya1500 liverc1500 to come out1511 field1535 combat1589 to manage arms1590 sway1590 a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (National Libr. Scotl. 651) viii. l. 2239 [Þar Wilȝam Walas tuk on hande, Withe mony gret lordis of Scotlande, To] mellay [wiþe þe kynge in feycht]. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) ii. l. 1384 Thai mellayde [a1500 Nero mellit] sone in tyll batayle Quhare the fycht wes fers and felle. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.adj.1341v.a1500
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mellayn.adj.

† mellayv.