middleweight (midlwat)

In sporting, a boxer or jockey of intermediate weight; one who is between light-weight and heavy-weight. middling (mid'ling), a. and n. [ -ing2 .] 1. But middling folk, who their abiding make Between these two, of either guise partake. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Colonies. A certain middling thing, between a fool and a madman. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, ii. 1. It's middling cla es such as is in a middling way like - as is the best friends to me. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, II. 540. 2. Not in good health, yet not very ill; also, in Scotland, in fairly good health. [Rural.] The children 's middlin ' - Doctor Merrill ses he thinks they've got past the wust on 't. H. B. Stowe , Oldtown, p. 539. 3. Of medium quality: a specific commercial grade of flour, pork, etc. See fair to middling , under fair1.- Middling go ip, a go-between. Or what do you say unto a middling go ip , To bring you ay together at her lodging? B. Jonson, Devil is an A , i. 3. II. n. 1. The part of a gun-stock between the grasp and the tail-pipe or ramrod-thimble. E. H. Knight.-2. That part of a hog which lies between the ham and the shoulder; a side of bacon. [Western and southern U. S.]-3. pl . In milling , the parts of a kernel of grain next the skin of the berry, largely composed of gluten and considered the most nutritious part. In the older methods of milling this was ground as fine as po ible together with the starchy part and the bran, and then the whole was bolted to separate the bran. By the newer high-milling methods, the middlings are pa ed through a purifying machine and reground, forming a very pure flour, with larger and more uniform granules than from Scott , Bridal of Trier main, i. 9. middleman (mid'l-man), n.; pl. middlemen (-men). [=MLG. middelman = G. mittelmann (also mittelsmann ); as middle + man.] 1. One who acts as an intermediary between others in any matter; an intermediate le ee, contractor, negotiator, trader, broker, etc.; specifically, one who buys merchandise in bulk to sell it in smaller quantities to other traders or to retail dealers; in Ireland, a le ee of a tract of land who sublets it in parcels at an advanced rate to actual tenants or occupiers; more generally, any one who acts as a buyer and seller, or undertaker for profit, between pro that restringinicles resulting from mill ducers or principals and consumers, users, or executants. An insurance broker is one who acts as a middleman between the owners of ships and the underwriters who insure them in shares. Jevons , Money, p. 251. Thus we see that the pedlar was the original distributor of the produce of the country - the primitive middleman , as well as the prime mover in extending the markets of particular localities, or for particular commodities. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 415. The lands of Bosnia and Herzegovina have been strangely handed over to an Austrian middleman , to be administered by him in the name of his master the Turk. ing, intermingled with a certain quantity of bran and foreign matters, used as feed for farm stock; canaille. middling (mid'ling), adv. [ Don't none on H. B. Stowe, Oldtown, p. 31. He has been a middling good governor. The American, VIII. 227. middlingly (mid'ling-li), adv . Pa ably; tol E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 443. erably. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary middling ne