Middle English Dictionary Entry
mid-part n.
Entry Info
| Forms | mid-part n. |
| Etymology | From mid adj. & part. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The middle part of something; (b) the center.
Associated quotations
a
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)337 : Myddys, or the myd part of a thynge: Medium.
- ?a1475 PParv.(Win)220 : Hert, Myd part of a beest: Cor.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)745/7 : Hoc interciput, Anglice, the myd parte of the hede.
b
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)121/1 : I geve the materiall exaumple: owthir the mydde parte [vr. poynte] of a compas, or more grossely to make exsaumple to the axtre of a whele.