MIDDLE

See NAME, 1; THREAD.

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. Intermediate; intervening. Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends. Sir J. Davies.

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.

Located in the middle; in between. | Central. | Pertaining to the middle voice.

To take a middle view of. | To double (a rope) into two equal portions; to fold in the middle. | To strike (the ball) with the middle portion of the face of the bat.

A sheading of the Isle of Man.