| Middle |
Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. |
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| Middle |
Intermediate; intervening. |
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| Middle |
The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion |
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| Middle |
the waist. |
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| Middle-age |
Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediaeval. |
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| Middle-aged |
Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old. |
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| Middle-earth |
The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. |
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| Winter-ground |
To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. |
v. t. |
| Burying ground |
Alt. of Burying place |
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| Ground |
of Grind |
imp. & p. p. |
| Ground |
The surface of the earth; the outer crust of the globe, or some indefinite portion of it. |
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| Ground |
A floor or pavement supposed to rest upon the earth. |
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| Ground |
Any definite portion of the earth's surface; region; territory; country. Hence: A territory appropriated to, or resorted to, for a particular purpose; the field or place of action; as, a hunting or fishing ground; a play ground. |
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| Ground |
Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept. |
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| Ground |
The basis on which anything rests; foundation. Hence: The foundation of knowledge, belief, or conviction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope. |
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| Ground |
That surface upon which the figures of a composition are set, and which relieves them by its plainness, being either of one tint or of tints but slightly contrasted with one another; as, crimson Bowers on a white ground. |
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| Ground |
In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief. |
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| Ground |
In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied; as, Brussels ground. See Brussels lace, under Brussels. |
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| Ground |
A gummy composition spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle. |
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| Ground |
One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which moldings, etc., are attached; -- usually in the plural. |
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