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mid place
†1. A place in the middle. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 21539 Vnto þe tun bar þai þaa tre, Þar war þai don als in mide place. c1400Mandeville (1839) xxviii. 280 In mydd place of that vale, vnder a roche, is an hed and the visage of a deuyl bodyliche. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 350 The mid-place is neither the highest nor the lowest. 1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 131 In the mid-place between, the River Dee runnes along.
2. dial. (See quot.)
1871C. Gibbon Lack of Gold xvi, Entering the door there was an apartment on each side, a ‘mid-place’—that is, a big cupboard. |