Definition of "mell"

mell¹

/mɛl/

verb
third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled
1. (British, dialectal, transitive) To say (something); to speak, to tell.
noun
1. (UK dialectal) Discourse; conversation.

mell²

/mɛl/

verb
third-person singular simple present mells, present participle melling, simple past and past participle melled
1. (intransitive, obsolete or dialectal) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
  Quotations
  For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell.
  c. 1495, John Skelton, Vppon a deedman's hed
  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.
  1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Iuly. Aegloga Septima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, folio 29, recto
  “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.”
  1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], page 57

mell³

/mɛl/

noun
uncountable
1. (obsolete) Honey.
  Quotations
  Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell, nor gall.
  1586, William Warner, Albion's England

mell⁴

/mɛl/

noun
uncountable
1. The last grain cut at harvest; kern