/mid"leuhnd/ , n.
1. the middle or interior part of a country.
2. ( cap. ) the dialect of English spoken in the central part of England.
3. ( cap. ) the dialect of English spoken in the southern parts of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, and in West Virginia, Kentucky, and eastern Tennessee, and throughout the southern Appalachians.
adj.
4. in or of the midland; inland.
5. ( cap. ) of or pertaining to Midland.
[ 1400-50; late ME. See MID-, LAND ]