单词 | midwise |
释义 | midwiseadv.ΚΠ 1889 J. Payne tr. Alaeddin 110 They ceased not to live at their sufficiency, midwise [betwixt rich and poor], without excessive spending or squandering. 2. Across or through the middle. ΚΠ 1895 H. A. Dobson Coll. Poems II. 122 Grief there will be..When King Apollo's bay Is cut midwise. 1931 Biometrika 22 329 A smooth line drawn midwise across the indentations. 1973 Ecology 54 574/2 The most efficient [method] consisted of cutting the slit mid-wise and digging the eggcases..out. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1889 |
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