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A martyrology. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

ng; robust. That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy. Hallam.

lar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.

first mowing thereof, for the king's use, is wont to be sooner than the common math. Bp. Hall.

The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.

A music hall.

arance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc. Hail, an ordinary meteor. Bp. Hall.

ning to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. Bp. Hall.

t 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.

An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A erroneous statement or allegation. Bp. Hall.

To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.

Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. [R.] Bp. Hall.

An erroneous inference or conclusion. Bp. Hall.

Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting. [R.] Bp. Hall.

To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.

Wrong credulity or belief; misbelief. Bp. Hall.

To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Arrayed, prepared, or furnished, unsuitably. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

Erroneous disposal or application. Bp. Hall.