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▪ I. † mediastine1 Obs. Also 7 -in. [Anglicized form of mediastinum. Cf. F. médiastin.] = mediastinum.
1631Widdowes Nat. Philos. 60 The lesse principall parts of breathing, are the midriffe, and the mediastin. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxvii, He did transpierce him, by running him in at the breast, through the mediastine and the heart. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. 339 There is none of the Membranes..but may be the Seat of this Disease, the Mediastine as well as the Pleura. ▪ II. † mediastine2 Obs. rare—1. Also -in. [ad. L. mediastīn-us.] ‘A drudge, or kitchin slave’ (Phillips 1658); also quasi-adj.
1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 139 A certain mediastin Genius, porcupin'd all over with all the three. |