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Webster 1913 Edition

Middling

Mid′dling

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Adj.
Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
“A town of but middling size.”
Hallam.
Plainly furnished, as beseemed the
middling
circumstances of its inhabitants.
Hawthorne.
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Mid′dling-ly
,
adv.
–
Mid′dling-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Middling

MID'DLING

,
Adj.
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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