Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract RelationsSection III. Quantity
3. Conjunctive Quantity
41. [Forming a Whole Without Coherence.] Mixture.
IMPREGNATION; infusion, diffusion, suffusion, transfusion; infiltration; seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding; interpolation [See Interjacence]; adulteration, sophistication.
[THING MIXED] tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice, seasoning, infusion, soupçon [F.].
[COMPOUND RESULTING FROM MIXTURE] alloy, amalgam; brass, chowchow, pewter; magma, half-and-half, mélange [F.], tertium quid [L.], miscellany, ambigu [obs.], medley, mess, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, hotchpot, pasticcio [It.], patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble (disorder) [See Disorder]; salad, sauce, mash, omnium-gatherum [colloq.], gallimaufry, olla-podrida, olio, salmagundi, potpourri, Noah’s ark; texture; mingled yarn; mosaic (variegation) [See Variegation].
HALF-BLOOD, half-breed, half-caste; mulatto; quarteron or quarteroon [rare], quintroon or quinteron, quadroon, octoroon, sambo or zambo; cafuzo; Eurasian; fustee or fustie [W. Ind.], mestee [W. Ind.], mestizo (fem. mestiza), griffe, ladino, marabou, sacatra [U.S.]; zebrule; catalo; mule; cross, hybrid, mongrel; cross-breed (unconformity) [See Unconformity].
BE MIXED &c.; get among, be entangled with.
IMBUE; infuse, suffuse, transfuse, instill or instil, infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.