What does mell mean?
Mell means (British, dialectal, transitive) To say (something); to speak, to tell..
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/mɛl/ · verb
(British, dialectal, transitive) To say (something); to speak, to tell..
For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell.
Here is a great deale of good matter, / loſt for lacke of telling, / Now ſicker I see, thou doeſt but clatter: / harme may come of melling.
And ſay a ſouldier (Dian) told thee this: / Men are to mell with, boyes are not to kis.
“By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there.”
Her ſmyles were ſober, and her lookes were chearfull vnto all: / And ſuch as neither wanton ſeeme, noꝛ waward, mell, noꝛ gall.
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Mell means (British, dialectal, transitive) To say (something); to speak, to tell..
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For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell.
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