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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Meddle \Med"dle'\, verb (used without an object) [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. [root]271. 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; -- in 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Meddle \Med"dle\, verb (used with an object) To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
''Wine meddled with gall.'' --Wyclif (Matt. xxvii. 34).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
meddle
verb: intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!" [syn: {tamper}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
73 Moby Thesaurus words for "meddle": Paul-Pry, advise, advocate, arrest, bottle up, brief, busybody, butt in, check, coach, confer, consult with, counsel, countercheck, curb, dam up, damp, dampen, delay, detain, direct, fool, fool with, guide, hinder, hold back, hold in check, hold up, horn in, impede, inhibit, instruct, intercept, interfere, interlope, intermeddle, interrupt, intervene, intrude, invade, keep back, keep in check, kibitz, make, meddle with, mess around, mess with, monkey with, nose, obtrude, oppose, peek, peep, prescribe, propose, pry, recommend, repress, resist, restrain, retard, scotch, set back, slacken, snoop, snub, spy, submit, suggest, suppress, tamper, tamper with, trespass
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