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Midmost

Mid \Mid\ (m[i^]d), a. [Compar. wanting; superl. Midmost.] [AS. midd; akin to OS. middi, D. mid (in comp.), OHG. mitti, Icel. mi[eth]r, Goth. midjis, L. medius, Gr. me`sos, Skr. madhya. [root]27

  1. Cf. Amid, Middle, Midst, Mean, Mediate, Meridian, Mizzen, Moiety.] 1. Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean.

    No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall list'ning in mid air suspend their wings.
    --Pope.

  2. Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.

  3. (Phon.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain vowel sounds; as, [=a] ([=a]le), [e^] ([e^]ll), [=o] ([=o]ld). See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 10, 11.

    Note: Mid is much used as a prefix, or combining form, denoting the middle or middle part of a thing; as, mid-air, mid-channel, mid-age, midday, midland, etc. Also, specifically, in geometry, to denote a circle inscribed in a triangle (a midcircle), or relation to such a circle; as, mid-center, midradius.

Midmost

Midmost \Mid"most`\, a. [OE. middemiste. Cf. Foremost.] Middle; middlemost.

Ere night's midmost, stillest hour was past.
--Byron.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
midmost

Old English midmest; see mid + -most.

Wiktionary
midmost

a. In the exact middle, or nearest to the exact middle; middlemost

WordNet
midmost
  1. adj. being in the exact middle [syn: middlemost]

  2. adv. the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" [syn: in the midst, in the middle]

Usage examples of "midmost".

And even as he steadied himself in a fork of its boughs, the midmost parts of the Dragon came above him, and swayed down with their weight almost upon his head, ere Glaurung could heave them up.

Gate upon the midmost globe stood an image of the White Tree Telperion, wrought of silver and malachite, with flowers made of great pearls of Balar.

But in the centre, above the midmost pillar and the greatest, was raised a mighty image of the king-helm of Turgon, the Crown of the Hidden Kingdom, set about with diamonds.

Juss sat in the high seat midmost of the dais, with Goldry on his right in the seat of black opal, and on his left Spitfire, throned on the alexandrite.

For four days they journeyed through deep woods carpeted with the leaves of a thousand autumns, where at midmost noon twilight dwelt among hushed woodland noises, and solemn eyeballs glared nightly between the tree-trunks, gazing on the Demons as they marched or took their rest.

Magnify ye, then, His station, for behold, He is poised in the midmost heart of the All-Highest Paradise as the embodiment of the praise of God in the Tabernacle wherein His glorification is intoned.

Call Thou to mind the bounty which I bestowed upon Thee when I conversed with Thee in the midmost heart of My Sanctuary and aided Thee through the potency of the Holy Spirit that Thou mightest, as the peerless Mouthpiece of God, proclaim unto men the commandments of God which lie enshrined within the divine Spirit.

By the righteousness of God, the True One, the testimony shown forth by His Remembrance is like unto a sun which the hand of the merciful Lord hath raised high in the midmost heart of the heaven, wherefrom it shineth in the plenitude of its meridian splendour.

There is no longer a visible Star, but only this dense, dancing, pulsing rain of silver, shot with mesmeric reds, purples, green-blues, which means that the Star-shell, or its midmost layer, is all about them.

It rolls the midmost waters of the world, the Indian ocean and Atlantic being but its arms.

But we were more interested in the recesses of Comptroller Bay, where our eyes eagerly sought out the three bights of land and centred on the midmost one, where the gathering twilight showed the dim walls of a valley extending inland.

How often we had pored over the chart and centred always on that midmost bight and on the valley it opened--the Valley of Typee.

Or on that loneliest of eves when afar and benighted we stood, She who upheld me and I, in the midmost of Egdon together, Confident I in her watching and ward through the blackening heather, Deeming her matchless in might and with measureless scope endued.

Thiodolf held aback and led the midmost company, as his wont was, and the more part of the Wolfings were with him.

Koshmar had found out accidentally how to operate the doors, and she had chosen the midmost of the eleven rooms for her chapel.