MIDDLE (2)

middle (2). Middle, midst, n. the middle part, way or time

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Mid″dle (?), n. [[AS. middel. See Middle, a.]] 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; specif., the waist. Chaucer. “The middle of the land.” Judg. ix. 37. In this, as in most questions of state, there is a middle. Burke. Syn. — See Midst.