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Webster 1913 Edition
Midden
Mid′den
,Noun.
[Also
midding
.] [Cf. Dan.
mögdynge
, E. muck
, and dung
.] 1.
A dunghill.
[Prov. Eng.]
2.
An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, – as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See
Kitchen middens
.