Mid″den (?), n. [Also midding.] [Cf. Dan. mögdynge, E. muck, and dung.]
1. A dunghill.
2. An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, — as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.