Middling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MIDDLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• (in cricket, tennis, etc.) strike (the ball) with the middle of the bat, racket, or club
NOUN:
• the point or position at an equal distance from the sides, edges, or ends of something
• the point at or around the centre of a period of time, activity, etc.
• the form or voice of a verb expressing reflexive or reciprocal action.
• any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
• a person's waist and stomach
ADVERB:
• to a moderately sufficient extent or degree
• moderately
ADJECTIVE:
• average, so-so
• at an equal distance from the extremities of something; central
• (of a member of a group or sequence) placed so as to have the same number of members on each side
• intermediate in rank, quality, or ability
• (of a language) of the period between the old and modern forms
• denoting a voice of verbs in some languages, such as Greek, which expresses reciprocal or reflexive action.
• denoting a transitive verb in English which does not have an equivalent passive, e.g. had in he had an idea.
• Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
• lacking exceptional quality or ability
• mediocre
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to place in the middle (the area or point equidistant from extremes or limits)
• a cut of pork

Words related to MIDDLING

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How to use MIDDLING in a sentence

• In the East, they catch them to bait with, for hallibut, and other middling sized creatures, that are particular about their diet.
• This is near half of the middling price in our time.
• He was a man of very middling qualities and a quite stupid sort of person, but he loved his wife and made the most he could of such talents as he had.
• Bella Barnes played the piano middling, and Maddie could sing first-rate, and all of them could dance.
• I did my best for her, laying her out and putting a middling white sheet around her.
• It was just sunset, and with a fair to middling breeze, dead aft, we stood still in the rapid current.
• These were of middling size, denoting feet of small size.
• A squire in Seat-Sandal out of the old name would have a very middling kind of time, I think.
• He was a man of middling height, spare figure, and olive complexion, wearing a short chestnut-colored beard.
• It is in the middling classes that the freedom, the intelligence, and the industry of a country reside.
• Sometimes they are middling good, sometimes barren.
• The soil is mulatto, gravelly, and of middling quality, or rather indifferent.
• The middling crop alone is the saving point, and that the seasons seldom hit.
• As yet, that light has dawned on the middling classes only of the men in Europe.
• I try to walk in his steps, and so keep middling straight.
• The middling classes, out of the large towns, have little else besides painted tiles.
• Had he been possessed of this essential quality, even his middling talents, aided by so many virtues, would have rendered his reign honorable and happy.
• So we did middling well, and Jan got one of the men that was a bit of a scollard to write to his mother, and got a hawker to take the letter along for the mending of his shoes.
• I am aware of the decay of the middling parts I had, and others may be still more sensible of it.
• Luckily, conversation was still formal in her day, and it was as possible for her as for Congreve to make middling men and women talk first-rate prose.
• Again a karma may be intense, middling or mild, and this indicates the third principle of division, anubhâga.
• The door flew open, and there entered a man of a middling stature, and of a handsome but melancholy countenance.
• The fruits of this study may be easily discerned in those original draughts of character from the middling and lower classes with which his pieces everywhere abound.
• To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
• The writer has seen a few bales, of a most beautiful color and length of staple, which sold for eighty cents, when middling Uplands brought but ten cents per pound.
• The consumption of tea in Russia is very great, as the middling classes make a more frequent use of that beverage than the rest.
• A bushel of rice will weigh about sixty or sixty-six pounds, and an acre of middling land will produce twenty-five bushels.
• Domingo, an article of middling quality, but not in large quantity.
• Nioungdoa is a middling sized village, situated about a mile from the mouth or entrance, at which were observed plenty of boats.
• In 1808, a cow and calf were sold by public auction for L105, and the price of middling cattle was from L80 to L100.
• But with the middling as well as with the great, the same habits must operate.
• The fact that the large class of middling rich has been evolved from a world where all began poor, is a promise of a future society where poverty shall be the exception.
• From the survival of the middling rich, the future common weal will be none the worse, and it may even be better.

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