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.