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- English Word Middy Definition A colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.
- English Word Midfeather Definition A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.
- English Word Midfeather Definition A support for the center of a tunnel.
- English Word Midgard Definition The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.
- English Word Midge Definition Any one of many small, delicate, long-legged flies of the Chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite. Their larvae are usually aquatic.
- English Word Midge Definition A very small fly, abundant in many parts of the United States and Canada, noted for the irritating quality of its bite.
- English Word Midget Definition A minute bloodsucking fly.
- English Word Midget Definition A very diminutive person.
- English Word Midgut Definition The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.
- English Word Midheaven Definition The midst or middle of heaven or the sky.
- English Word Midheaven Definition The meridian, or middle line of the heavens; the point of the ecliptic on the meridian.
- English Word Midland Definition Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants.
- English Word Midland Definition Surrounded by the land; mediterranean.
- English Word Midland Definition The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural.
- English Word Midmain Definition The middle part of the main or sea.
- English Word Midmost Definition Middle; middlemost.
- English Word Midnight Definition The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
- English Word Midnight Definition Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom.
- English Word Midrash Definition A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.
- English Word Midrashim Definition of Midrash
- English Word Midrashoth Definition of Midrash
- English Word Midrib Definition A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.
- English Word Midriff Definition See Diaphragm, n., 2.
- English Word Midship Definition Of or pertaining to, or being in, the middle of a ship.
- English Word Midshipman Definition Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.
- English Word Midshipman Definition In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant.
- English Word Midshipman Definition In the United States navy, the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being graduates of the Naval Academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign.
- English Word Midshipman Definition An American marine fish of the genus Porichthys, allied to the toadfish.
- English Word Midshipmen Definition of Midshipman
- English Word Midships Definition In the middle of a ship; -- properly amidships.