mid
/mɪd/ adjective B2- Occupying a middle position; middle.
- Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; said of certain vowel sounds, such as, [e o ɛ ɔ].
- Mediocre; of middling quality.
- Trashy; low-quality.
Superlative midmost
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The door opened to admit a thin, austere figure with a hatchet face and drooping mid-Victorian whiskers of a glossy blackness which hardly corresponded with the rounded shoulders and feeble gait.
Dantès glanced that way as he lifted the gourd to his mouth; then paused with hand in mid-air.
“The recent sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville, whose name has been mentioned as the probable Liberal candidate for Mid-Devon at the next election, has cast a gloom over the county.
Then, if you had been watching, you would have seen the most wonderful thing in the world--the wolf checked in mid-spring.
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