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Show MI MI Mip. adj. [contraded from middle, o derived from mid, Dutch. 1. Middle; equally betwee two extremes N more the mounting larks, while Daphn fing& Shall, lifting in mid air, fufpend their wings. Pope Ere the mid hour of night Unweary'd from tent to tent through the num'rous hoft he paft Rowe 2. It is much ufed in compofition Mip-course. #. /. [mid and courfe. Middle of \the way Why in the Eaf Darknefs ere day's mid-courfe # and morning light More orient in yon weftern cloud, that draw QO'er the blue firmament a radiant white Zfi/ton _1\'111')-:).1\\' adj [mi an dional, being at noon ‘Who fhoot at the mid-da Meri day. fun, though he b fure he fhall never hit the mark, yet as fure he i he fhall fhoot higher than he who aims but at buth Sidney His fparkling eyes, replete with awful fire More dazzled and drove back his enemies Than mid-day fun fierce bent againft their faces S/ffl/({//mzi‘f Did he not lead you through the mid-day fun And clouds of duft ? Did not his temples glo In the fame fultry winds and fcorching heats Mip-pay Addifon #./ Noon ‘Who have before meridian or thall write after thee Their works, though toughly laboured Like infancy or age to man's firm ftay Or early or late twilights to mid-day will b Donne Thought all their glory vain in knightly view Spenfer Mi'DDLE. adj. [mibble, Saxon. 1. Equally diftant from the two extreme The loweft virtues draw praife from the common people; the midd/e virtues work in them aftonithment; but of the higheft virtues they hav no fenfe Bacon's Efjays middle fation of life, within reach of thof conveniences which the lower orders of mankin muft neceffarily want, and yet without embarraflment of greatnefs Rogers To deliver all his fleet to the Romans ten widdle-fized brigantines 2. Intermediate; intervening Will, feeking good and middl Sawift finds many middle ends Dawvies Middle finger excep Arbuthnot on Coins I like people of middle underftandin rank the long finger You firft introduce the midd/e finger of the lefthand Sharp VI:'DDLE. 7. / . Part equally diftant from two extremities ; the part remote from the verge Ther com people dow by the middl land Th tim happen end Th tha betwee caufe beginning an th pafles th defign effe@ o o Hudibras or event tha beginnin of an acio thefe caufes an are th an difficulties met with in the execution of thef figns, are the middle; and the unravelling and refolution of thefe difficulties are the end Dryden j l/];DDLE-ACED adj [middl caufe of th oily part the beft abounding in the blood Arbuthno on Aliments I found you a very young man, and left you middle-aged one : - you knew me a middle-aged man and now I a an old one DIift M1'ppLEMOST. adj. [from middle. ing in the middle 1DeE~ Why have not fome beafts more than four feet fuppofe {ix, and the middlomoff fhorter than th reft The outmoft fringe vanifhe dlemoft next, and the innermof The outward ftars, with thei muft neceflarily have defcende dlemoft {yfte of th univerfe be moit ftrongly attraéted fro More firft, and the midlaft. Newwton's Opt {yftems of planets towards the midwhethe al woul all parts of a finit fpace Bentley's Sermons M1 ppLING. adj. [from middle. 1. Of middle rank; of condition equall remote from high and low A middling fort of a man, left well enough t pafs by his father, could never think he had enoug fo long as any man had more. L'Eftrange's Fables 2. O moderat fize havin qualities of any kind moderat The bignefs of a church ought to be no greate than that unto which the voice of a preacher o middling lungs will eafily extend Graunt Longinus preferred the fublime genius that fome time errs t th middlin which makes few faults excellence o indifteren but feldo one rifes to an Dryden The fame name is given to the inlanders, o midland inhabitants of this ifland, by Cafar Brown's Vulgar Errours The midland towns abounding in wealth, fhew that her riches are intern and domeftick. Hozvel The various dialeés of the Englith in th North and Weft, render their exprefiions man times unintelligible to the other, and both fcarc intelligible to the midland Hale 2. I th midft of the land; mediterra nean There was the Plymouth {quadron now come in Which twice on Bifcay's working bay had been And on the mid/and {ea the French had aw'd Mipce 7. /. [miege, Saxon. Mip-BEAVEN. #. /. [mid an The middle of the fky Dryden A gnat heaven. lg. Middl He had fifty attendants, young men all, in whit fatten, loofe coats to the midleg, and ftockings o white filk Bacon Mi'pmosT. adj [from mid, or contralte from middlemoft words which hav an Placed about the middle of life age. A middle-oged man,. that was half grey, hal brown, tock a fancy to marry two wives, L' Ffrang You, II this is one of th not a comparative Now van to van the foremoft fquadrons meet The midmaft battles hatting up behind Dryden Hear him{elf repin At fate's unequal laws : and at the clue Which, mercilefs in length, the midmoft fifter drew Diyden What dulnefs dropt among her fons impreft Like motion, from one cirele to the reft So from the midmof} the nutation fpread Round, and more round o'er all the fea of heads P'»j):‘ M1'DN1GHT. 2. /. [mid and night. Milto feems to have accented this lait fyllable. The noon of night twelve at night and at <3 t he fled From compafling the earth 5 the depth of night st returne ious of day Milton After this time came on the midrizht of th church, wherein the very names o counci r forgotten an me did orly dream of Stillin ha fle t In all that dark midnight of popery there were fii fom am of fome witnefies that arofe t give teftimony to the truth Atterbury They can tell what alti had a midnight or midnoon in Rome when Julius Cafa was f{lain Mi'pNiGHT. adj of the night How now What is't yo I hope m tries flourif Watts Bein in the middl you fecret, black and midnight hags do Shakefpeare's Macheth midnight ftudies, to make our counin myfericus and beneficent arts have not ungratefully affeGed your intelleéts Eacon Some folitary cloifter will I chufe Coarfe my attire, and fhort fhall be my fleep Broke by the melancholy midright bell Dryden MI"_DRxFF. n./. [mioppige, Sax. diaphragin Th The midriff divides the trunk of the body int two cavities ; the thorax and abdomen : it is compofed of two mufcles; the firft and fuperior o thef arifes from the fternum and the ends of th laft ribs on each fide The fecond and inferio mufcle comes from the vertebrz of the loins b two produttions, of which that on the right fid comes from the firft, fecond and third vertebrz o the loins; thaton theleft fide is fomewhat fhorter and both thefe productions join and make the lowe part of the midriff uincy Whereat he inly rag'd, and as they talk'd Smote him into the midriff with a fton That beat out life Milron's Paradife Loff In the gullet, wher it perforatet the midriff the carneous fibres of that mufcular part are inflected Ray Mip-sea. #. [, [mi Mediterranean fea ard fea. Th Our Tyrrhene Pharos, that the mid-fea meet With its embrace and leaves the land behind Dryden M1'osa1pMAN. 2. /. [from mid, fbip, an man. Midfbipme But the hot hell that always in him burns Though in mid-beaven, foon ended his delight Milton Mri'preG. #. f. [mid an of the leg To be up after mi t, and to go to bed t fo that to go to bed aft be though they feem to have a fuperlativ degree. The middle With roof fo low that under i They never ftand, but lie or fit And yet {o foul, that whofo is in Is to the middle leg in prifon ‘ The middle-aged fupport faftin Mi'pLanp. adj. [mid and land. 1. That which is remote from the coaft Mi‘ppesT. fuperl. of mid, middef}, midft Yet the ftout fairy *mongit the middeft crowd MI are officers aboar a fhip whof ftation is fome on the quarter-deck, others on th poop Their bufinefs is to mind the braces, t look out, and to give about the word of comman from the captain and other fuperior officers : the alfo affift on all occafions, both in faiiing the fhip and in ftoring and rummaging the hold. Harris Mibpst 7. / Middle All is well when nothing pleafes but God, bein thankful in the midf? of his afliions Taylor Arife, ye fubtle fpirits, that can fp ‘When love is enter'd in a female's eye You that can read it in the midff of doubt And in the midff of frowns can find it out. Dryder Mipst. adj. [contratted from middef?, th fuperlative of mid. Midmoft; bein in the middle On earth join all ye creatures to exto Him firft, Him laft, Him midff, and without end A3 7 In th ac fi YLILTON Slighted Maid bu in the fifth wha migh nor an there is nothing in th thin i MipstrE aM. #. /. [mi Middle of the ftream An whic eginni) ng 1."!)‘4.7";: and Srream. I creeping by the fide fhoulder'd oft by his impetuou Mi'PSUMMER don o the mid might not have been placed in The midffream's his fai bese hav #. /. [#i and Dry |