Webster's English Dictionary

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middle

1. mid.dle \'mid-*l\ aj [ME middel, fr. OE; akin to L medius] 1: equally 
   distant from the extremes : MEDIAL, CENTRAL {th e ~ house in the row} 2: 
   being at neither extreme : INTERMEDIATE  cap  3a: constituting a division 
   intermediate between those prior and later or  upper and lower {Middle 
   Paleozoic} 3b: constituting a period of a language or literature 
   intermediate between  one called Old and one called New or Modern {Middle 
   Dutch} of a verb form or voice  4: typically asserting that a person or 
   thing both performs and is affecte d by the action represented
2. middle n 1: a middle part, point, or position  2: the central portion of 
   the human body : WAIST  3: the position of being among or in the midst of 
   something  4: something intermediate between extremes : MEAN