2. Intermediate; intervening.

Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends.

Sir J. Davies.

Middle is sometimes used in the formation of self- explaining

compounds; as, middle-sized, middle- witted.

Middle Ages, the period of time intervening between the decline of the

Roman Empire and the revival of letters. Hallam regards it as beginning

with the sixth and ending with the fifteenth century. -- Middle class,

in England, people who have an intermediate position between the

aristocracy and the artisan class. It includes professional men,

bankers, merchants, and small landed proprietors

The middle-class electorate of Great Britain.

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