| Black Death |
a deadly plague, probably bubonic, that was widespread in Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, characterized by dark splotches on the skin. |
| Christian Science |
a religion based on Christian scripture that was founded in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century and that teaches that disease and illness can be treated by spiritual means. |
| coffee break |
a short rest from work, usu. in mid-morning or mid-afternoon, for coffee or other refreshments. |
| Early Modern English |
the spoken and written English of about the mid-fifteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries. |
| eight-track tape |
a magnetic-tape cartridge with four pairs of stereo tracks of prerecorded sound, popular in the United States from the mid-sixties to the early eighties. |
| Gothic |
of or relating to the style of architecture that was popular from the twelfth through the mid-sixteenth century in Europe, characterized by its pointed arches and ribbed vaults. [1/7 definitions] |
| great auk |
a large flightless North Atlantic auk that became extinct in the mid-nineteenth century. |
| junior miss |
a young woman in her early or mid-teens. [1/2 definitions] |
| know-nothing |
(caps.) a member of a secret American political organization of the mid-nineteenth century, who favored barring immigrants and Roman Catholics from political office, and who professed public ignorance of the organization's activities. [1/2 definitions] |
| Leonid |
any shower of meteors occurring annually in mid-November and appearing to radiate from the constellation Leo. |
| middle finger |
the finger that is the longest and mid-most of one's hand. |
| mid-Victorian |
a person living during the mid-Victorian era. [2/3 definitions] |
| Moby Dick |
the white whale in Herman Melville's mid-nineteenth-century novel of the same name. |
| panty girdle |
a girdle with a crotch and legs that can vary in length from very short to mid-thigh to knee-length. |
| Perseid |
any of numerous meteors visible in the night sky around mid-August each year. |
| Progressive Party |
any of three short-lived U.S. political parties of the early and mid-twentieth century that advocated policies considered progressive or radical in their time. |
| seafloor spreading |
the creation of new oceanic crust formed by an upward flow and outward spread of magma along mid-ocean ridges. |
| secessionist |
(often cap.) one who advocated the secession of the U.S. southern states in the mid-nineteenth century. [1/2 definitions] |
| Simon Legree |
in the mid-nineteenth-century novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, a cruel overseer and slave dealer. [1/2 definitions] |
| Tishri |
the first month of the Jewish lunisolar calendar, occurring from mid-September through early October in the Gregorian calendar. |
| trunk hose |
short baggy breeches that extend to mid-thigh, worn in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |