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The European whiting.

A kind of brass. See Maslin. [Obs.]

ually 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; but now, after separation of the bran, used for making the best quality of flour. Middlings contain a large proportion of gluten.

The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill. High milling, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, o…

In a mingling manner.

Insensate. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A wrong spelling.

n painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form. [Written also modelling.] Modeling plane, a small plane for planing rounded objects. -- Modeling wax, beeswax melted with a little Venice turpentine, or other resinous material, and tinted with coloring matter, usually red, -- used in modeling.…

That which is a month old, or which lives for a month. [R.] Wordsworth.

A simpleton; a lunatic. [Obs.]

Mortling. [Eng.] Ainsworth.

An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling. [Eng.]

Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins. Simmonds.

See Duck mole, under Duck. [Written also mollingong.]

Low; indistinct; inarticulate. -- Mum"bling*ly, adv.

or representation of the muscles. [R.] A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.

The id.

A young bird which has not abandoned the nest. Piers Plowman.

A process (resembling splicing) by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope.