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单词 middlesized
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also refers to : middle-sizedadj.

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middle-sized
b. Attributively, with qualifying words denoting relative size, as fair-sized, full-sized, great-sized, large-sized, middle-sized.In later use also with adverbs, as fairly-sized, moderately-sized.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. xi. 26 Thou great siz'd coward. View more context for this quotation
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Poincte The middle-sized wax-candle vsed in Churches.
a1678 A. Marvell Upon Appleton House in Misc. Poems (1681) 77 When larger sized Men did stoop To enter at a narrow loop.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Cock A Dunghil Cock..should be..of a large and well-siz'd Body.
1800 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening (ed. 3) xiv. 192 One plant or at most two will be enow under one full sized light.
1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 225 A moderate sized garden pea.
1883 F. Day Indian Fish 46 Large drag-nets,..having fairly-sized meshes.
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 528/2 The average-sized bottlenose whale yields 22 cwts. of oil.
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