Middling

What do we mean by middling?

Of medium size, position, or quality. adjective

Mediocre. synonym: average. adjective

Pork or bacon cut from between the ham and shoulder of a pig. noun

Salt pork. noun

Any of various products, such as partially refined petroleum or ore, that are intermediate in quality, size, price, or grade. noun

Coarsely ground wheat mixed with bran. noun

Fairly; moderately. adverb

Tolerably; moderately.

Medium in rank, condition, or degree; intermediate; hence, only medium; neither good nor bad; neither one thing nor the other: as, a fruit of middling quality.

Not in good health, yet not very ill; also, in Scotland, in fairly good health.

Of medium quality: a specific commercial grade of flour, pork, etc. See fair to middling, under fair.

The part of a gun-stock between the grasp and the tail-pipe or ramrod-thimble. noun

That part of a hog which lies between the ham and the shoulder; a side of bacon. noun

Plural In milling, the parts of a kernel of grain next the skin of the berry, largely composed of gluten and considered the most nutritious part. noun

Plural The coarser particles resulting from milling, intermingled with a certain quantity of bran and foreign matters,used as feed for farm stock; canaille. noun

Plural The finest kind of wheat bran. noun

Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. adjective

Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre adjective

In fairly good health. adjective

Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality.

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