subs. (old cant).—The nose. For synonyms, see CONK.

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  Verb. (venery).—To copulate. For synonyms, see GREENS and RIDE. Also MEDDLE.

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  d. 1450.  LYDGATE (HALLIWELL).

        Like certeyn birdes called vultures,
Withouten MELLYNG conceyven by nature.

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  c. 1468.  Ludus Coventriæ [Shakespeare Society, 1841], p. 215.

        And a talle man with her dothe MELLE …
And we xul take them both togedyr,
  Whylle that thei do that synful dede.

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  c. 1541.  The Schole-house of Women, 733 [HAZLITT, Remains of the Early Popular Poetry of England, IV. 133].

        Made him drunk, and so at last
MEDLED with him, he sleeping fast.

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  1598.  SHAKESPEARE, All’s Well that Ends Well, iv. 3. Men are to MELL with, boys are not to kiss.

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