<B>middy blouse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a loose blouse like a sailor's, having a collar with a broad flap at the back, worn by children and young girls. </DL>
<B>midfield, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the middle of a sports field. </DL>
<A NAME="midfielder">
<B>midfielder, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a lacrosse player stationed in midfield. </DL>
<A NAME="midflight">
<B>mid-flight, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the middle of flight. <BR> <I>Ex. When bats are caught in mid-flight, their wings are often broken (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the middle of any action or procedure. <BR> <I>Ex. a career in mid-flight, music in mid-flight.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midgard">
<B>Midgard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Norse Mythology.) the earth, placed between heaven and hell, and connected with heaven by a rainbow. Also, <B>Midgarth,</B> <B>Mithgarthr.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="midgarth">
<B>Midgarth, </B>noun. <B>=Midgard.</B></DL>
<A NAME="midge">
<B>midge, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various very small insects; gnat. <BR> <I>Ex. Of course, I just call them black flies, but the guides call them midges (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a very small person, such as a child. </DL>
<A NAME="midget">
<B>midget, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person very much smaller than normal; tiny person. <BR> <I>Ex. We saw midgets in the circus. Parson Kendall's a little midget of a man (Harriet Beecher Stowe).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>anything much smaller than the usual size for its type or kind. <DD><I>adj. </I> very small; miniature; diminutive. <BR> <I>Ex. a midget car.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midgetmoth">
<B>midget moth,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a family of tiny moths with wing spans of less than one-eighth inch. </DL>
<A NAME="midgut">
<B>midgut, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the middle section of the embryonic alimentary canal. </DL>
<A NAME="midheaven">
<B>midheaven, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the middle of the sky. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Astronomy.) the meridian of a place. </DL>
<A NAME="midi">
<B>midi, </B>noun, pl. <B>midis,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a skirt, dress, or other garment reaching to the calf, usually the mid-calf; longuette. <DD><B> 2. </B>the style or length characterized by hemlines at the calf. <DD><I>adj. </I> reaching to the calf, usually the mid-calf. <BR> <I>Ex. a midi coat.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midi">
<B>Midi, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the south, especially the south of France. </DL>
<A NAME="midian">
<B>Midian, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of Abraham's sons (in the Bible, Genesis 25:2). </DL>
<A NAME="midianite">
<B>Midianite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a wandering tribe of northwestern Arabia, said to be descended from Midian. They fought against the Israelites (in the Bible, Numbers 31:1-9). </DL>
<A NAME="midinette">
<B>midinette, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a girl who works in a Paris store, dressmaking establishment, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. It is the season to look at the little shopgirls and midinettes (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midiron">
<B>midiron, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a golf club with a steel or iron head having a face of small slope, used for long approach shots. It is usually called a "number 2 iron." </DL>
<A NAME="midland">
<B>midland, </B>noun adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the middle part of a country; the interior. <BR> <I>Ex. The stranger had come from the midland and never seen the sea.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>Midlands,</B> the central part of England. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>in or of the midland; inland. <BR> <I>Ex. midland plains.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>surrounded by land; mediterranean. </DL>
<A NAME="midland">
<B>Midland, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> belonging to the Midlands. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>General American, the variety of English spoken in most of the United States. <DD><B> 2. </B>the dialect of English spoken in the midland of England especially in the Middle English period. </DL>
<A NAME="midlander">
<B>Midlander, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an inhabitant of the Midland counties of England. </DL>
<A NAME="midlandman">
<B>Midland man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an early North American human, probably predating the Folsom man. </DL>
<A NAME="midleg">
<B>midleg, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the middle of the leg. <DD><B> 2. </B>one of the middle or second pair of legs of an insect. </DL>
<A NAME="midlent">
<B>Mid-Lent, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the middle of Lent. </DL>
<A NAME="midline">
<B>midline, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a line marking the middle of a body or object. <BR> <I>Ex. the midline of an organ, embryo, or hoof.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midmashie">
<B>mid mashie,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a golf club with a steel head having a hitting surface sloped more than that of a midiron, but less than that of a mashie. It is usually called a "number 3 iron." </DL>
<A NAME="midmorning">
<B>midmorning, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the middle of the morning. <BR> <I>Ex. He reached Chicago in midmorning after two nights on the train (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> occurring at, or having to do with, the middle of the morning. <BR> <I>Ex. midmorning coffee break.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midmost">
<B>midmost, </B>adjective, adverb, preposition.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>in the exact middle; nearest the middle; middle. (SYN) middlemost. <DD><B> 2. </B>most intimate. <DD><I>adv. </I> in the midmost part; in the midst. <DD><I>prep. </I> in the midst of. </DL>
<A NAME="midnight">
<B>midnight, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> twelve o'clock at night, when the old day ends and the new one begins; the middle of the night. <BR> <I>Ex. We have heard the chimes at midnight (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or at midnight. <DD><B> 2. </B>dark as midnight. <BR><I>expr. <B>burn the midnight oil.</B> </I>See under <B>oil.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="midnightly">
<B>midnightly, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> occurring at midnight or every midnight. <DD><I>adv. </I> at midnight; every midnight. </DL>
<A NAME="midnightsun">
<B>midnight sun,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the sun seen throughout the day and night in the arctic and antarctic regions during their summers. <BR> <I>Ex. The midnight sun is an example of a circumpolar star (Robert H. Baker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midnoon">
<B>midnoon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the middle of the day; noon. <BR> <I>Ex. Gentlewomen ... who begin their morning at midnoon (John Lyly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midocean">
<B>mid-ocean, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the middle of the ocean. <BR> <I>Ex. stable mid-ocean research platforms (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midoceanridge">
<B>mid-ocean ridge,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the large ridges running through the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and across the Pacific Ocean. Their existence is thought to support the theory of continental drift. </DL>
<A NAME="midoff">
<B>mid-off, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Cricket.) the fieldsman or the area to the left of the wicket. </DL>
<A NAME="midon">
<B>mid-on, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Cricket.) the fieldsman or the area to the right of the wicket. </DL>
<A NAME="midphrase">
<B>midphrase, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the midpoint of a phrase of music or speech. <BR> <I>Ex. In the awesomely beautiful open-air arena at Persepolis he [Artur Rubinstein] rehearses the sublime opening of the last movement of the Appassionata Sonata, and in midphrase looks up and laughs (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midpoint">
<B>midpoint, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the middle part of anything; midway point. <BR> <I>Ex. the midpoint of a journey.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midrash">
<B>Midrash, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the whole body of Jewish traditional Scriptural exegesis, partly of a legal nature, but mostly of a homiletic character. </DL>
<A NAME="midrash">
<B>midrash, </B>noun, pl. <B>midrashim</B> or <B>-shoth.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Judaism.) an exposition of the Scriptures or a part of them. </DL>
<A NAME="midrashic">
<B>midrashic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a midrash or the Midrash. <BR> <I>Ex. His latest venture is into the vast and cloudy hinterland of Jewish midrashic lore (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midrib">
<B>midrib, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the main vein of a leaf, continuous with the petiole, extending through the central part of the blade of the leaf. </DL>
<A NAME="midriff">
<B>midriff, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>the diaphragm separating the chest cavity from the abdomen. <DD><B> b. </B>the middle portion of the human body. <BR> <I>Ex. a bare midriff, a punch in the midriff.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a woman's or girl's garment, often made in two pieces, that leaves the middle portion of the body bare. <DD><I>adj. </I> made so as to expose the middle part of the body. <BR> <I>Ex. a midriff bathing suit.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midrise">
<B>mid-rise, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> midway between low-rise and high-rise; not excessively tall. <BR> <I>Ex. The biggest newsmakers in architecture ... were arguably not these high-profile urban public buildings but their lowly suburban counterpart--the mid-rise office building (Daralice D. Boles).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midseason">
<B>midseason, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the middle of a season; the busy part of the season in a business, sport, or field of entertainment. <BR> <I>Ex. Hotel rates are high in midseason.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> in or for the midseason. <BR> <I>Ex. a disastrous midseason slump.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midsection">
<B>midsection, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the middle part of something. <BR> <I>Ex. The cold air pouring down into the country's midsection and Southeast is sure to shift in March (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the middle part of the body; midriff. <BR> <I>Ex. The midsection is a bit on the heavy side and the hair is gray and thinned (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="midship">
<B>midship, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> in, of, or belonging to the middle part of a ship. </DL>
