middling ness (midlingnes)

The state of being middling; mediocrity. I make it a virtue to be content with my middling ne ;... it is always pardonable, so that one does not ask others to take it for superiority. George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, xxxv. middy (mid'i), n.; pl. middies (-iz). A colloquial diminutive of mid4, an abbreviation of midship man. mid ethmoid (mid'eth-moid), a. and n. [ and rendering their combustion more complete before they pa into the cooler flues or tubes of the boiler.