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sng-bulPs Iiofc blood. This he did, as PTutarch mention#, 
to free him'felf from the numerous ill-dreams which con¬ 
tinually tormented him. 
MFDAS’s E'AR. See Haliotis Midne, vol. ix. 
MIDDATOO'R, a town of Hindoollan, in Golconda : 
fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Canoul. 
MID'DELBURG. See Middleburg. 
MID'DEN, or Mid'ding, f. [Saxon.] A dunghill.— 
A very miclden, or muckheape of all the grofleft errors and 
iterefies of the Romilh church. Favour's Antiquity Trium¬ 
phant over Novelty, (1619.) 
MID'DEST, tuperl. of mid: 
Net the flout fairy ’mongft the middeji crowd. 
Thought all their glory vain in knightly view. SpenfcT. 
MID'DLE, adj. [mtbbel, Sax.l Equally aidant from 
the two extremes.—I like people cf middle underftanding 
end middle rank. Swift. —Intermediate ; intervening.- - 
Will, feeking good, finds many middle ends. Davies .—• 
Middle linger; the long linger.—-You firft introduce the 
ifiddle finger of the left-hand. Sharp. 
MID'DLE, f. Part equally diflant from two extremities; 
the part remote from the verge.—There come people down 
by the middle of the land. Judges. 
With roof fo low that under it 
They never Hand, but lie or fit; 
And yet fo foul, that whofo is in, 
is to the middle leg in prifon. TLidihras. 
The time that paffes, or events that happen, between the 
beginning and end.—The caufes and deligns of an aftion 
are the beginning; the effe< 5 ls of thefe caufes, and the 
difficulties met with in the execution of thefe deligns, are 
the middle ; and the unravelling and relolution of thefe 
difficulties are the end. Dry den. 
MID DLE-AGED, adj. Placed about the middle of 
life.—The middle-aged fuppert falling the heft, becaufe of 
(the oily parts abounding in the blood. Arbuthnot oil Ali- 
zments. 
MIDDLE BAN'K, one of the filhing-banks of New¬ 
foundland, fbuth-eaft of Cape Bieton. Lat. 45. N. 
MIDDLE CA'PE, lies to the fouth-weft of Cape An¬ 
thony, in Staten Land, on the Strait je Maire, and the 
moll wefterly point of that illand; at the extremity of 
South America. 
MIDDLE-EAR'TH, f. The world ; the place between 
the ethereal and lower regions.—I frnell a man of mkldle- 
earth. Shalufpecre's El err]/ I Vises of Wind for. 
MIDDLE l'SLAND, a Email illand in the Straits of 
Saleyer, near the fouth coall of Celebes. Lata 5.40.S. 
ion. 120. 52. E. 
MIDDLE l'SLAND, a fmall Illand in the Ealtern In¬ 
dian Sea, near the fouth-weft coaft of Boutton. Lat; 5. 
38. S. Ion. 122. 51. E. 
MIDDLE l'SLAND, an i/land in the Straits of Sunda, 
in the Indian Sea. Lat. 5. 57. N. Ion. 104.. 53. E. 
MIDDLE l'SLAND CREE'K, a river of Virginia, 
which runs into the Ohio in lat. 39. x6. N. Ion. 81. 22. W. 
MIDDLE I'SLANDS, a clufler of fmall Hands in the 
Pacific Ocean, near the coaft of Mexico. Lat. 9. 30. N.— 
A duller of fmall illands in Lake Huron. Lat. 45. 1. N. 
ion. 83. 33. W. 
MIDDLE LA'KE, a lake of Canada: 300 miles north 
of Quebec. Lat.51.44_N. Ion. 69. 35. W. 
MIDDLE POINT, a cape on the eail coaft of Labrador. 
Lat. 59. N. Ion. 63. W. 
MIDDLE SIS'TER, a fmall illand at the weft end of 
Lake Erie, in Upper Canada, lituated between the eaft 
*nd weft Siftar. * j 
MID'DLE-SI'ZED, adj. Neither the largeft nor the 
dealt.—To deliver all his fleet to the Romans, except ten 
tniddle-Jized brigantines. Arbuthnot on Coins. 
MIDDLE STA'TES, one of the grand divilions of 
United America; comprehending New York, New Jerfey, 
S’ennfylvania* Delaware, QJjio, and Jndiaoa. 
M 1 d ms 
MIDDLE 1 I^Of'CE, in the Greek language, holds an 
intermediate rank between the active and the paffive,' 
being fuppofed to have a middle lignification between 
them. The tenfesrpeculiar to the middle voice are the. 
two futures, the two aorifts,.the perred, and the pluper- 
fed. The two futures and the two aorifts borrow'the' 
terminations of the paffive, while the two perfed tenfes 
borrow thole of the adive voice. For tire manner in. 
which thefe tenles are formed, we refer to the valuable' 
Grammar of the Greek-Tongue, on a new and improved 
plan, by Mr. John Jones. 
MIDDLE WA LES, in a fhip, two or three thick 
ftrakes wrought fore and aft, between the lower and mid¬ 
dle deck-ports, in three-deck lliips. 
MID'DLE-WITTED, adj. Of moderate abilities.—, 
The women, the fhopkeepers, and the muldle-witted peo¬ 
ple. Walton's Love and Truth. 
MID'DLEBOROUGH, of Namas'kett, a town of the' 
ftate of Maftachufetts : forty miles fouth-eaft of Bofton. 
MID'DLEBROOK, a poll-town of North America, in- 
Virginia : 186 miles fouth-weft of Walhington. 
MID'DLEBROOK, a town of New York, on the left- 
bank of the Hudfon : eleven miles north of Weft Point. 
MID'DLEBURG, a feaport-town of Holland, in the 
ftate of Zealand, lituated in the centre of the illand of 
Walcheren, of which it is the capital, and about four miles 
from Fluffiing. It was at the beginning only a village, 
which the lords of Borlfele enlarged and l’urrounded with 
walls in the year 1132. It is at prefen t a large and hand- 
fome city, and had the firft feat in the aflembly of the* 
Hates of Zealand. The town-houfe is a magnificent build¬ 
ing, ornamented with a great number of the llatues of the.’ 
comtes and comtelles of Holland and Zealand ; it was for-- 
merly a rich and celebrated abbey, founded in the year-' 
1256, by William king of the Romans, and comte of Hol¬ 
land and Zealand, who was interred with his queen Ilk- 
bella in the abbey church, under a magnificent monumen ts 
erefted by Florent V. In this church was held a chapter 
of the order of the Golden Fleece, in 1505, by Philip the 
Fair, duke of Burgundy, afterwards king of Spain, when! 
he created ten new knights. It was deltroyed by light¬ 
ning in 1712.. The revenues Gf the abbey were granted 
to the bifhop, when pope Paul IV. ellablilhed an epifeopai 
fee at Middleburg in 1562, and the collegiate church of 
St. Peter -va.s made a cathedral. The diocefe was under 
the archbilhopric of Utrecht, and its jurifdidlion extended 
over to cities, and about 100 villages; and was divided 
into four deaneries, in which were included nine chapters 
of canons, one abbey, and thirty-three monaileries. The 
bilhopric continued but a very Ihort time ; for, in the year- 
1574, the city was taken by the Hollanders, after a liege 
of twenty-two months ; during which it was bravely de¬ 
fended by Chriftopher de Montdragon, the Spaniffi gene¬ 
ral, who, after enduring extreme hardffiips, lurrendered 
on the terms that the lacred veffels, church-ornaments, 
ecclefiaftics, and the garrifon, Ihouid be fafely conduiled 
to Flpnders; and that the baron of Ste. Aldegonde, the- 
intimate friend of the prince of Orange, who had been 
taken prifoner by the Spaniards, ftiould be fet at liberty; 
which were faithfully executed by both parties. Since 
that time the reformed religion has taken place, and the' 
bilhopric is dilfolved. The fortifications of Middleburg 
are very ftrongand regular, having been much augmented 
by the Dutch lince they became mailers of it. They have 
eight gates, and twelve bullions to defend the walls and. 
ramparts, with large and deep ditches filled with water; 
belides which, its lituation is fuck as to enable the peo¬ 
ple to lay the country about it under water when they 
pleafe. The number of inhabitants is about 36,000. 
Lat. 51. 34. N. Ion. 3. 29. E. 
MID'DLEBURG, a town of Flanders, which was ori¬ 
ginally only a hamlet to the village of Heyle, and belonged 
to an abbey from whence it took its name. In the year 
1433, the abbot obtained permiffion to alienate it; after 
which it pafie.d into t.he.poUe.ftiou of many d A went lords. 
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