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mid-earth
a. The middle of the earth. mid-earth sea, the Mediterranean Sea. (Cf. middle earth 2.)
b. quasi-arch. = middle earth 1.
1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 143 Not farre distante from the midde Earthe Seas. 1895A. Nutt in K. Meyer Voy. Bran I. 240 That tract of earth is not Accessible to many o'er mid-earth. 1895J. Menzies Cynewulf's Elene 15 Since heaven's Lord in low degree In this mid-earth a man was born. |