Defn: 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.
MIDDLE-AGE
Mid"dle-age`, Etym: [Middle + age. Cf. Mediæval.]
Defn: Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.
MIDDLE-AGED
Mid"dle-aged`, a.
Defn: Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.
MIDDLE-EARTH
Mid"dle-earth`, n.
Defn: The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. [Obs.]
Shak.
MIDDLE-GROUND
Mid"dle-ground`, n. (Paint.)
Defn: That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.