middling

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality

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

   • The football team is never the worst or best in its league; its position is always middling.
2. 2

   In fairly good health.

   • I am in a middling Way, between Healthy and Sick, hardly ever without a little Giddineſs or Deafneſs, and ſometimes both: So much for that.
   • “And how’s that chest of yours?” demanded Mrs. Morel. / He smiled again, with his blue eyes rather sunny. / “Oh, it’s very middlin’,” he said.
3. 3

   Fairly, moderately, somewhat.

   • St. Jerom ſeated, a middling ſized upright plate, from J. Palma, dated 1596. I think this is one of the fineſt prints by this great maſter. The drawing is admirable, and the engraving is executed with the utmoſt freedom.
   • Iwami, otherwise Sekisju, is two days journey long, going from ſouth to north, a middling good country, producing plenty of cannib, and affording ſome ſalt.
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   1. 4

      Not too badly, with modest success.

   2. 5

      Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.

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