Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The middle part of the day; midday.
  • noun An hour between two specified hours.

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Examples

  • I ended up missing it last week because I got caught up in something else and forgot to change the station mid-hour.

    The TV Addict’s TV Guide | the TV addict 2008

  • If a Familiar be sent forth by the mid-hour of the night, it may rove the farther.

    Three Against The Witch World Norton, Andre 1965

  • Held by the silence of those waiting figures, in that icy mid-hour of the night, it came to me then, for the first time in my life, that it was possible I might die.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • At the mid-hour of night, when the storms really blew, I used to lie aghast in my bed, hearing the rain claw the window and the wind slap the walls, and imagining the family, the house, and all the furniture, being sucked down the eternal drain.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • And now was the mid-hour of the day passed, when he heard no little noise; whereby he understood that the heathens were violating the Sabbath with their profane labors (the which was right contrary to his custom and command); and that they were then employed in a certain work which is called rayth; that is, a wall.

    The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings Various

  • When Edgar Allen Poe read that lyric of Moore’s that begins “At the mid-hour of night, ” he perceived a distinctive metrical achievement.

    Introduction 1922

  • We read that at York the players were to be ready "at the mid-hour betwixt the IVth and Vth of the clock in the morning."

    "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays Anonymous 1902

  • Truly a prime of sorrow, the dark mid-hour of the storm, dark with the grief gone by and the blackness of the on-coming grief.

    Emily Brontë 1900

  • When at length she closed her eyes, her slumber was fitful and broken by dreams, and in the mid-hour of the darkness she wakened with a start, as if some sound had aroused her.

    A Lady of Quality 1896

  • The fact that they were speaking thus in so public a place, and at the mid-hour of the working day, was of itself enough to attract the attention of any white dweller of that region.

    The Law of the Land Emerson Hough 1890

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