1. (superl.) Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean.

2. (superl.) Occupying a middle position; middle; as, the mid finger; the mid hour of night.

3. (superl.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; -- said of certain vowel sounds; as, a (ale), / (/ll), / (/ld).

4. (n.) Middle.

5. (prep.) See Amid.

accented alveolar amid amidships amidst among amongst apical apico-alveolar apico-dental articulated assimilated average back barytone between betwixt betwixt and between bilabial broad cacuminal center centermost central cerebral checked close consonant consonantal continuant core dental dissimilated dorsal equatorial equidistant flat front glide glossal glottal guttural halfway hard heavy high interior intermediary intermediate intonated labial labiodental labiovelar lateral lax light lingual liquid low mean medial median mediocre mediterranean medium mesial mezzo middle middlemost middling midland midmost midships midst midway monophthongal muted narrow nasal nasalized nuclear occlusive open over oxytone palatal palatalized pharyngeal pharyngealized phonemic phonetic phonic pitch pitched posttonic retroflex rounded semivowel soft sonant stopped stressed strong surd syllabic tense thick throaty throughout together with tonal tonic twangy unaccented unrounded unstressed velar vocalic vocoid voiced voiceless vowel vowellike weak wide with