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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.

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.

To perform the office of midwife.

The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.

The middle of winter. Dryden.

To midwife. [Obs.]

A white crystalline solid, from ammonia by replacement of an equivalent of hydrogen by acetyl.

One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.

See Amidst.

A compound formed by the union of amidogen with an acid element or radical. It may also be regarded as ammonia in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by an acid atom or radical. Acid amide, a neutral compound formed by the substitution of the amido group for hydroxyl in an acid.

Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

Containing, or derived from, amidogen. Amido acid, an acid in which a portion of the nonacid hydrogen has been replaced by the amido group. The amido acids are both basic and acid. -- Amido group, amidogen, NH2.

rom the molecule of which one of its hydrogen atoms has been removed; -- called also the amido group, and in composition represented by the form amido.

A salt of a diamino phenol, C6H3(OH)(NH2)2, used as a developer.

In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth. Totten.

In the midst or middle of; surrounded or encompassed by; among. "This fair tree amidst the garden." "Unseen amid the throng." "Amidst thick clouds." Milton. "Amidst acclamations." "Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court." Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak.

A body formed from albumin by pancreatic and gastric digestion. It is convertible into antipeptone.