| 单词 | the mid of |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe mid of 1. = middle n. in various senses. Chiefly in in the mid, the mid of. Now British regional.See etymological note. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > middle or centre middleeOE mideOE midwardOE middleheada1325 pointc1330 midsa1382 meanc1390 middleward1431 midstc1450 centrea1500 centrya1535 navel1604 umbilic1607 meditullium1611 half-way1634 umbrila1636 amidst1664 eye1671 umbil1688 omphalos1845 mid-career1911 middle-middle1926 the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > position of being in the midst middleeOE mideOE midsa1382 midst1535 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > middle > [noun] middleeOE mideOE the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [noun] > middle of trunk or waist middleeOE mideOE girdlec1275 rondelc1300 girdlesteadc1330 waistc1386 belt steadc1540 girding-place1601 midriff1823 beltline1892 midsection1956 eOE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 422) ii. 264 Se fugel hafað IIII haefdu medumra manna, and he is on middan hwælen. OE Beowulf 2702 Forwrat Wedra helm wyrm on middan. c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 9766 (MED) He tok þe þridde & cleued him to þe midde. a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxxxv. 11 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 264 Þat led Irael fra mide ofe þa. c1450 (?c1400) Three Kings Cologne (Cambr. Ee.4.32) (1886) 120 (MED) Euerych of þe ij kyngis departed a-sonder..and so resceyued hym to lye in þe mydde bitwix hem boþe. a1542 T. Wyatt Psalm li. Prol. 397 in Coll. Poems (1969) Lik as the pilgryme..In some fresh shaade lith downe at mydes off day. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 21 The urine is whyte, thick, and pale above and in the midde it is clere. 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. Ded. sig. ¶1 Amonges the midde of my reioyce of those before remembred, I can not pretermit the lamentable losse of the best approued gonner that euer serued. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 32 Next his skin he was a Hermite, and wore sack-cloth; in the midd he had the habit of a Monk. a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 46 A great number of Dutchwomen, who resolved to keep their seats in the mid of the aisle. 1699 Robin Hood newly Revived iii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 145/1 It was in the mid of the day. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Cinyras & Myrrha in Fables 177 'Twas now the mid of Night. 1851 Gloss. Provinc. Words Cumberland Mid, the middle; the centre. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xi. 190 And forbye you were on the top of a tree, and it was in the mid of the night. < as lemmas |
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