And on the midland sea the French had awed.
Dryden.
Mid"land (?), n. The interior or central region of a country; --
usually in the plural. Drayton.
Mid"main` (?), n. The middle part of the main or sea. [Poetic] Chapman.
Mid"most` (?), a. [OE. middemiste. Cf. Foremost.] Middle; middlemost.
Ere night's midmost, stillest hour was past.
Byron.
Mid"night` (?), n. [AS. midniht.] The middle of the night; twelve
o'clock at night.
The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.
Shak.
Mid"night`, a. Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night;
as, midnight studies; midnight gloom. "Midnight shout and revelry."
Milton.
||Mid*rash" (?), n.; pl. Midrashim (#), Midrashoth (#). [Heb.,
||explanation.] A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some
||part of it.
Mid"rib` (?), n. (Bot.) A continuation of the petiole, extending from
the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.
Mid"riff (md"rf), n. [AS. midhrif; midd mid, middle + hrif bowels,
womb; akin to OFries. midref midriff, rif, ref, belly, OHG. href body,
and to L. corpus body. See Corpse.] (Anat.) See Diaphragm, n., 2.
Smote him into the midriff with a stone.
Milton.
{ Mid" sea", or Mid"-sea" (?) }. The middle part of the sea or ocean.
Milton.