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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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475 words match “MIDDLE”

The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.

The middle part of the day; noon.

MIDDEST a. 2 definitions

Situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost. [Obs.] " 'Mongst the middest crowd." Spenser.

Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. "A town of but middling size." Hallam. Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. Hawthorne. -- Mid"dling*ly, adv. -- Mid"dling*ness, n.

ed States, the portion of the hog between the ham and the shoulder; bacon; -- called also middles. Bartlett.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.

MIDGARD; MIDGARTH; MITHGARTHR n.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human beings; the earth.

The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.

MIDHEAVEN n. 2 definitions

The midst or middle of heaven or the sky.

The middle part of the main or sea. [Poetic] Chapman.

Middle; middlemost. Ere night's midmost, stillest hour was past. Byron.

MIDNIGHT n. 2 definitions

The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.

Of or pertaining to, or being in, the middle of a ship. Midship beam (Naut.), the beam or timber upon which the broadest part of a vessel is formed. -- Midship bend, the broadest frame in a vessel. Weale.

In the middle of a ship; -- properly amidships.

MIDST n. 2 definitions

The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest. And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him. Luke iv. 35. There is nothing... in the midst [of the play] which might not have been placed in the beginning. Dryden.…

The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy (Bot.), the oxeye daisy.

Situated in the middle.

MIDWAY n. 3 definitions

The middle of the way or distance; a middle way or course. Shak. Paths indirect, or in the midway faint. Milton.

The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.

The middle of winter. Dryden.