n. A blowing or fusing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
n. A blend or fusion, especially a composite reading or text formed by combining the material of two or more texts into a single text.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or of many fires in a foundry.
n. a fusing together; merger of two or more things or ideas into one.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The blowing of two or more musical instruments together.
n. A melting or casting of metal.
n. In diplomatics: An inadvertent combination of two readings of the same passage, so as to produce a new reading different from either.
n. A reading which has thus originated.
Word Usage
"Semantics can often be a distraction, but in this case, the conflation is at least in part due to Behe's own voluntary participation in the Dover trial."