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.