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  • English Word Mida Definition The larva of the bean fly.
  • English Word Midas Definition A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset.
  • English Word Midas's ear Definition A pulmonate mollusk (Auricula, / Ellobium, aurismidae); -- so called from resemblance to a human ear.
  • English Word Midbrain Definition The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.
  • English Word Midday Definition The middle part of the day; noon.
  • English Word Midday Definition Of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.
  • English Word Midden Definition A dunghill.
  • English Word Midden Definition An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.
  • English Word Midden crow Definition The common European crow.
  • English Word Middest Definition Situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost.
  • English Word Middest Definition Midst; middle.
  • English Word Middies Definition of Middy
  • English Word Midding Definition Same as Midden.
  • English Word Middle Definition Equally distant 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.
  • English Word Middle Definition Intermediate; intervening.
  • English Word Middle Definition The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion
  • English Word Middle Definition the waist.
  • English Word Middle-age Definition Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediaeval.
  • English Word Middle-aged Definition Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.
  • English Word Middle-earth Definition The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell.
  • English Word Middle-ground Definition That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
  • English Word Middleman Definition 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.
  • English Word Middleman Definition A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.
  • English Word Middleman Definition The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.
  • English Word Middlemen Definition of Middleman
  • English Word Middlemost Definition Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
  • English Word Middler Definition One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
  • English Word Middling Definition Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
  • English Word Middlings Definition A combination of the coarser parts of ground wheat the finest bran, separated from the fine flour and coarse bran in bolting; -- formerly regarded as valuable only for feed; but now, after separation of the bran, used for making the best quality of flour. Middlings contain a large proportion of gluten.
  • English Word Middlings Definition In the southern and western parts of the United States, the portion of the hog between the ham and the shoulder; bacon; -- called also middles.