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

A colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.

A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.

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

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

Any one of many small, delicate, long-legged flies of the Chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite. Their larvæ are usually aquatic.

A minute bloodsucking fly. [Local, U. S.]

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

The midst or middle of heaven or the sky.

Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants. Howell.

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

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

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

The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.

A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.

A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.

See Diaphragm, n., 2. Smote him into the midriff with a stone. Milton.

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.

An American marine fish of the genus Porichthys, allied to the toadfish. Cadet midshipman, formerly a title distinguishing a cadet line officer from a cadet engineer at the U. S. Naval Academy. See under Cadet. -- Cadet midshipman, formerly, a naval cadet who had served his time, passed his examinations, and was await…

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