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chance-medley

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Noun
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chance-med=ley

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun chance-medley has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

chance-medleyn. [Chance + medley.].
  •  The killing of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.  [1913 Webster]
    " The term has been sometimes applied to any kind of homicide by misadventure, or to any accidental killing of a person without premeditation or evil intent, but, in strictness, is applicable to such killing as happens in defending one's self against assault."  Bouvier.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Luck; chance; accident.  Milton. Cowper.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chance-medley, n. (pl. -eys)
1 Law a fight, esp. homicidal, beginning unintentionally.
2 inadvertency.

Etymology
AF chance medlee (see MEDDLE) mixed chance
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