Dictionary entry

Middling

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mid″dling (?), a. Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. “A town of but middling size.” Hallam.

Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. Hawthorne.

— Mid″dling‐ly, adv. — Mid″dling‐ness, n.