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mid leg
[mid a.]
1. The middle of the leg.
1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons Ded. 10 b, Their souldiors in their watches..stoode to the mid legges in dyrt and myre. 1748Earthquake Peru iii. 259 A large Handkerchief, which hangs down behind to the Mid-Leg.
b. Used advb.: To the middle of the leg.
1829W. H. Maxwell Stories of Waterloo I. 194 His jockey boots..were in the newest style; the top..was met midleg by short tights of tea-coloured leather. 1878H. S. Wilson Alp. Ascents ii. 42 We are wading mid-leg through it.
c. Comb., mid-leg deep, mid-leg high.
1772Wesley Jrnl. 16 Mar., Snow..lay mid-leg deep in..the streets. 1788M. Cutler in Life, etc. (1888) I. 404 We found fine feed in the road, clover mid-leg high. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. ix. 131 A solitary passenger is seen, now striding mid-leg deep across a drift.
2. Ent. One of the intermediate or second pair of legs of an insect. Also attrib.
1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. III. xxxiii. 379 Pedes Intermedii (the Mid-legs). Ibid. III. xxxv. 534 The first or mid-leg segment is not nearly so elevated as that of the hind-legs. |