Mid″dle (?), n. [AS. middel. See Middle, a.] 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; specif., the waist. Chaucer. “The middle of the land.” Judg. ix. 37.
In this, as in most questions of state, there is a middle. Burke.
Syn. — See Midst.