Medium in rank, condition, or degree; intermediate; hence, only medium; neither good nor bad; neither one thing nor the other: as, a fruit of middling quality.Not in good health, yet not very ill; also, in Scotland, in fairly good health.Of medium quality: a specific commercial grade of flour, pork, etc. See fair to middling, under fair.n. The part of a gun-stock between the grasp and the tail-pipe or ramrod-thimble.n. That part of a hog which lies between the ham and the shoulder; a side of bacon.n. plural In milling, the parts of a kernel of grain next the skin of the berry, largely composed of gluten and considered the most nutritious part.n. plural The coarser particles resulting from milling, intermingled with a certain quantity of bran and foreign matters,used as feed for farm stock; canaille.Tolerably; moderately.n. plural The finest kind of wheat bran.