Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MID'DLING
MID'DLING, a. [Sax. midlen.]
Of middle rank, state, size or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; moderate. Thus we speak of people of the middling class or sort, neither high nor low; of a man of middling capacity or understanding; a man of middling size; fruit of a middling quality.
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