mid-distanceadv.n.

1825 Lancet 9 July 28/2 The ligature was passed exactly mid-distance between the division of the common iliac..and the origin of the circumflexa ilii and epigastric.

1863 L. B. Urbino Art Recreations 231 We will suppose it is a landscape, with mountains in the distance, water mid-distance, and foliage and building and figures in the foreground.

1997 Revista Brasileira de Zool. 14 341 The plots were evenly located near, mid-distance, and far from the stream-bed.

1828 Examiner 1 June 357 Cream-coloured and demitinted city and mid-distance.

1863 L. B. Urbino Art Recreations 90 Distant mountains, permanent blue, Naples yellow, and Venetian red. Nearer ones, use yellow ocher instead of Naples yellow. Mid-distances, the same, sometimes allowing the yellow ocher and blue to predominate.

1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) 82 I love My fellows most at arm's length, not too near—In the mid distance, somewhat.

1885 Athenæum 23 May 669/1 In the mid-distance is a clump of sober-coloured and softly shadowed elms.

1930 Jrnl. Ecol. 18 facing p. 126 (caption) A few dwarf Aster Tripolium in foreground... Spartina in mid-distance.

1979 Amer. Q. 31 606 The camera rarely moves, preferring for the most part to look at its subjects from eye-level and mid-distance.

1997 A. Beattie My Life, starring Dara Falcon 73 I tried to elicit a smile from Joanna, but she was looking beyond me, to some mid-distance.

1848 Commerc. Rev. South & West Feb. 194 From the point where the one-hundreth degree of longitude west of London, leaves Red river to the Rio Grande,..the width is about 300 miles and the mid distance of such a line would fall nearly on longitude 25 degrees west of Washington city.

1867 E. H. Plumptre tr. Sophocles Œdipus at Colonos in tr. Sophocles Trag. (ed. 2) 118 Stopping at mid distance between it, And the Thorikian rock, and hollow pear, And the stone sepulchre, he sat him down.

1884 19th Cent. Aug. 331 The windhover hawk poising at mid-distance above his quarry.

1910 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 4 Suppl. 258 The dividing line shall follow the mid-distance between the banks of the Jaguarão.

1964 J. F. W. Galyer & C. R. Shotbolt Metrology for Engineers i. 3 Each block being engraved with a fine line on one surface, at approximately the mid-distance between its end faces.

1980 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77 7077/2 The other was found slightly ahead of the middistance between the unhydrolyzed and the hydrolyzed fraction.

1988 Autosport 29 Sept. 74/4 Terry Heley's Ford Zephyr strolled easily away from the rest of the field in the early laps but slowed at mid-distance.