Middle

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( a.) Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.

(2): ( a.) Intermediate; intervening.

(3): ( 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

(4): ( a.) the waist.

King James Dictionary

Middle, a. mid'l. L. medius.

1. Equally distant from the extremes as the middle point of a line or circle the middle station of life. The middle path or course is most safe. 2. Intermediate intervening.

Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends.

Middle ages, the ages or period of time about equally distant from the decline of the Roman empire and the revival of letters in Europe, or from the eighth to the fifteenth century of the christian era.