Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MID'DLE, n.

1. The point or part equally distant from the extremities. See, there come people down by the middle of the land. Judges ix.
2. The time that passes, or events that happen between the beginning and the end. Dryden. Middle and center are not always used synonymously. Center is most properly applied to circular, globular or regular bodies; middle is used with less definiteness. We say, the center of a circle or of the solar system; the middle of a page, the middle of the night or of the month.