MIDDLING

middling. Middling, a. being of a middle rank, moderate

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Mid″dling (?), a. 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.