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Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.

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  1. a. Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
  2. adj. lacking exceptional quality or ability
  3. n. any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
  4. adv. to certain extent or degree
  5. 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.
  6. Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distantfrom the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. "A town ofbut middling size." Hallam.Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of itsinhabitants. Hawthorne.-- Mid"dling*ly, adv.-- Mid"dling*ness, n.
  7. r:12/j:88 n. any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)