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That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean. The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection. L'Estrange.

The third or middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it.

ce, -- formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of melam. Called also cyanuramide.

Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course. "Meridian hour." Milton. Tables ... to find the altitude meridian. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.

The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.

Of or pertaining to the middle of the ethmoid region or ethmoid bone. -- n. (Anat.)

Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral. Mesial plane. (Anat.) See Meson.

Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord. Mesne process, intermediate process; process intervening between t…

A combining form denoting in the middle, intermediate; specif. (Chem.), denoting a type of hydrocarbons which are regarded as methenyl derivatives. Also used adjectively.

Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.

The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers. Gray.

Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the middle of the head; as, the mesocephalic flexure.

A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.

The middle body layer in some invertebrates.

Of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach.

Having the intrinsic muscles of the larynx attached to the middle of the semirings.

Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.

The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.

The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.