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The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday.

Midday; twelve o'clock in the day; noon.

The time of noon; midday.

hing spoken of or contemplated; at a particular time referred to. The ship was now in the midst of the sea. Matt. xiv. 24.

The act of nodding. So from the midmost the nutation spreads, Round and more round, o'er all the sea of heads. Pope.

An upright, four-sided pillar, gradually tapering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.

nd, or which is simply an object of thought or feeling, and opposed to subjective. In the Middle Ages, subject meant substance, and has this sense in Descartes and Spinoza: sometimes, also, in Reid. Subjective is used by William of Occam to denote that which exists independent of mind; objective, what is formed by the…

A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who offered themselves and their property to a monastery. Addis & Arnold.

Of or pertaining to midwifery, or the delivery of women in childbed; as, the obstetric art. Obstetrical toad (Zoöl.), a European toad of the genus Alytes, especially A. obstetricans. The eggs are laid in a string which the male winds around his legs, and carries about until the young are hatched.

To perform the office of midwife. [Obs.] "Nature does obstetricate." Evelyn.

The act of assisting as a midwife; delivery. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The science of midwifery; the art of assisting women in parturition, or in the trouble incident to childbirth.

pparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark. Apart and easy to be known they lie, Amidst the heap, and obvious to the eye. Pope.

e undetermined; -- so called by the schoolmen. -- Occult sciences, those sciences of the Middle Ages which related to the supposed action or influence of occult qualities, or supernatural powers, as alchemy, magic, necromancy, and astrology.

found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean. Petrels are the most aërial and oceanic of birds. Darwin.

n to place or time; belonging to, or connected with; as, men of Athens; the people of the Middle Ages; in the days of Herod.

on the table, which stands on the floor of a house on an island. I stood on the bridge at midnight. Longfellow.

A thinly wooded space, without undergrowth, in the midst of a forest; as, oak openings. [U.S.] Cooper.

The middle of the posterior, or dorsal, margin of the great foramen of the skull.

the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest. In orle, round the escutcheon, leaving the middle of the field vacant, or occupied by something else; -- said of bearings arranged on the shield in the form of an orle.