MIDDLE

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.

2.
a.

Intermediate; intervening. Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. Sir J. Davies.

3.
n.

The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion; specif., the waist. Chaucer. "The middle of the land." Judg. ix. 37. In this, as in most questions of state, there is a middle. Burke.


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