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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Medley \Med"ley\, n.; pl. {Medleys}. [OE. medlee, OF. mesl['e]e,
     medl['e]e, mell['e]e, F. m[^e]l['e]e. See {Meddle}, and cf.
     {Mel['e]e}, {Mellay}.]
     1. A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients,
        usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often
        used contemptuously.


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              This medley of philosophy and war.    --Addison.
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              Love is a medley of endearments, jars,
              Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.     --W. Walsh.
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     2. The confusion of a hand to hand battle; a brisk, hand to
        hand engagement; a m[^e]l['e]e. [Obs.] --Holland.
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     3. (Mus.) A composition of passages detached from several
        different compositions; a potpourri.
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     Note: Medley is usually applied to vocal, {potpourri} to
           instrumental, compositions.
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     4. A cloth of mixed colors. --Fuller.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Medley \Med"ley\, a.
     1. Mixed; of mixed material or color. [Obs.] "A medl['e]
        coat." --Chaucer.
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     2. Mingled; confused. --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  medley
       n : a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or
           other musical pieces from various sources [syn: {potpourri},
            {pastiche}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  142 Moby Thesaurus words for "medley":
     agglomeration, all sorts, amalgamated, ambiguous, ambivalent,
     amphibious, assemblage, assortment, bicolor, bicolored, blend,
     blended, brew, broad spectrum, capriccio, caprice, chromatic, cold,
     collectanea, collection, colorful, colorific, coloring, colory,
     combination, combined, complex, composite, compound, compounded,
     conglomerate, conglomeration, cool, crazy, daedal, dappled,
     dichromatic, divers-colored, divertissement, eclectic, equivocal,
     fantasia, farrago, fifty-fifty, gallimaufry, glowing, goulash,
     half-and-half, harlequin, harmonious, hash, heterogeneous,
     hodgepodge, hotchpot, hotchpotch, humoresque, indiscriminate,
     intricate, ironic, jumble, jumbled, kaleidoscopic, magpie,
     many-colored, many-sided, mash, matching, melange, mess,
     mingle-mangle, mingled, miscellanea, miscellaneous, miscellany,
     mishmash, mix, mixed, mixed bag, mixture, monochromatic,
     monochrome, monochromic, motley, multicolor, multicolored,
     multicolorous, multifaceted, multinational, multiracial, oddments,
     odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium gatherum,
     omnium-gatherum, parti-color, parti-colored, pasticcio, pastiche,
     patchwork, patchy, pigmentary, pluralistic, polychromatic,
     polychrome, polychromic, potpourri, prismal, prismatic,
     promiscuous, rainbow, romance, romanza, salad, salmagundi, sauce,
     scramble, scrambled, shot, shot through, spectral, stew, sundries,
     syncretic, thrown together, thunder and lightning, tinctorial,
     tingent, toning, trichromatic, trichromic, tricolor, tricolored,
     two-tone, varicolored, varied, variegated, variety, versicolor,
     versicolored, warm, what you will
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Medley, FL (town, FIPS 43900)
    Location: 25.86304 N, 80.34813 W
    Population (1990): 663 (335 housing units)
    Area: 9.2 sq km (land), 1.3 sq km (water)
  Medley, WV
    Zip code(s): 26734

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Medley, FL -- U.S. town in Florida
     Population (2000):    1098
     Housing Units (2000): 387
     Land area (2000):     3.777563 sq. miles (9.783842 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.520218 sq. miles (1.347358 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    4.297781 sq. miles (11.131200 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            43900
     Located within:       Florida (FL), FIPS 12
     Location:             25.858307 N, 80.339141 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Medley, FL
      Medley
  

















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