Middling \Mid"dling\, a. Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. ``A town of but middling size.'' --Hallam.

Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants. --Hawthorne. -- Mid"dling*ly, adv. -- Mid"dling*ness, n.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)