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Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean. No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall list'ning in mid air suspend their wings. Pope.

The middle part of the sea or ocean. Milton. The Mid-sea, the Mediterranean Sea. [Obs.]

The larva of the bean fly.

A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset.

A pulmonate mollusk (Auricula, or Ellobium, aurismidæ); -- so called from resemblance to a human ear.

The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.

The middle part of the day; noon.

toric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

The common European crow. [Prov. Eng.]

Situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost. [Obs.] " 'Mongst the middest crowd." Spenser.

Same as Midden.

tant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.

Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.

Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.

The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. [Obs.] Shak.

That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.

An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.

Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.

One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.

Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant 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.