Definition of "meld" []

• To declare or display (a card or combination of cards in a hand) for inclusion in one's score in various card games, such as pinochle. (verb-transitive)
• To present a meld. (verb-intransitive)
• A combination of cards to be declared for a score. (noun)
• To cause to merge: "a professional position that seemed to meld all his training” ( Art Jahnke). (verb-transitive)
• To become merged. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "To meld is to blend together, like the cheese and the grilled onion in a patty meld ..."
• "I used to believe in meld until people disabused me of the notion."
• "To meld is also to lay down a set or run in Pinochle."