adjective. Of medium size, position, or quality.

adjective. Mediocre. synonym: average.

noun. undefined

noun. Pork or bacon cut from between the ham and shoulder of a pig.

noun. Salt pork.

noun. Any of various products, such as partially refined petroleum or ore, that are intermediate in quality, size, price, or grade.

noun. Coarsely ground wheat mixed with bran.

adverb. Fairly; moderately.

Tolerably; moderately.

Medium in rank, condition, or degree; intermediate; hence, only medium; neither good nor bad; neither one thing nor the other: as, a fruit of middling quality.

Not in good health, yet not very ill; also, in Scotland, in fairly good health.

Of medium quality: a specific commercial grade of flour, pork, etc. See fair to middling, under fair.

noun. The part of a gun-stock between the grasp and the tail-pipe or ramrod-thimble.

noun. That part of a hog which lies between the ham and the shoulder; a side of bacon.

noun. plural 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.

noun. plural The coarser particles resulting from milling, intermingled with a certain quantity of bran and foreign matters,used as feed for farm stock; canaille.

noun. plural The finest kind of wheat bran.

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

adjective. Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre

adjective. In fairly good health.

noun. any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

adjective. lacking exceptional quality or ability

adverb. to a moderately sufficient extent or degree

"From domestic uneasiness a man has a thousand resources; in middling life, the tavern, in high life, the gaming-table, suspends the anxiety of thought."

middling gossip  

ordinary  

commodity  good  trade good  

fiddling  piddling  twiddling  

arable  comparable  down-and-out  half-baked  humbler  

amidships  average  average  banal  betwixt and between  

middle