of no exceptional quality or ability; " a novel of average merit"; " only a fair performance of the sonata"; " in fair health"; " the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; " the performance was middling at best"

any commodity of intermediate quality or size ( especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

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

A mixture of coarse wheat flour and fine bran.

Of middle rate, state, size, or quality: about equally distant from the extremes: moderate.

Of moderate size, quality, degree. & c.

Of middle rank, quality, etc.; medium; tolerable.

Of middle rank, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; moderate.

Of middle rank or degree; neither high nor low; of middle average quality; of moderate capacity; mediocre.

Sufficient, a middling sized one for 2 persons. – The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Isabella Beeton

But he found it so hard and uncomfortable that it made his bones ache, and he jumped down at once and got into the middling chair, and he turned round and round in it, but he couldn't make himself comfortable. – More English Fairy Tales by Various

The note to Mr. Livingston is middling. – Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Matthew L. Davis

She is middling tall, of a most dainty slenderness, dark- haired, with a so sweet and saintly beauty of face that it must be seen to be believed. – The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini

There are some pious, just as there are pious boys; and the most of them, like the boys again, are middling honest, and yet think it rather larks to steal, and are easy scared, and rather like to be so. – The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 17 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson Other: Andrew Lang

The cotton used there is nearly all what is called " Middling American," the very kind which is now most scarce and dear. – Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh

Why, middling- good of course. – Charlie to the Rescue by R.M. Ballantyne

The middling of a pig weighing less than a hundred pounds, well scraped, washed clean, and likewise roasted on a rack after seasoning it well, makes a fine dish. – Dishes & Beverages of the Old South by Martha McCulloch Williams

Uncle John, as he was called long years before the hard- riding world threw him, was a preacher back in the days of his youth, middling manhood and prosperity. – The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

The Pavilion at Brighton had given the original idea to G. J., who saw in it the solution of the problem of combining the somewhat massive dignity suitable to a bachelor of middling age with the bright, unconquerable colours which the eternal twilight of London demands. – The Pretty Lady by Arnold E. Bennett

The common manner of obtaining it is as follows: about the first of January the persons employed in making turpentine begin to cut boxes in the trees, a little above the ground, and make them large or small in proportion to the size of the tree; the box of a large tree will hold two English quarts, of a middling tree one, and of a small one a pint. – An Historical Account Of The Rise And Progress Of The Colonies Of South Carolina And Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt

The men are fair to middling. – The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 4 by Charles Farrar Browne

" Middling," I replied, not to spoil his dinner; but he rose at once and took me into the garden. – The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete by Duc de Saint-Simon

The great big bear went and stood at the head of the bed; the middling sized bear went and stood at the middle of the bed; and the tiny bit of a bear went and stood at the foot of the bed. – Aunt Fanny's Story-Book for Little Boys and Girls by Frances Elizabeth Barrow

" Middling," said Fisher minor. – The Cock-House at Fellsgarth by Talbot Baines Reed