Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The middle of the leg.
- noun In entomology, one of the intermediate or second pair of legs of an insect.
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Examples
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If not careful, its midleg length can do which of the following shape killers?
Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005
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If not careful, its midleg length can do which of the following shape killers?
Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005
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If not careful, its midleg length can do which of the following shape killers?
Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005
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Inset yokes in the back combined with midleg vertical seams trick the eye and make your butt appear smaller.
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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Inset yokes in the back combined with midleg vertical seams trick the eye and make your butt appear smaller.
“I Don’t Have a Thing to Wear” Judie Taggart 2003
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On either side were great forests of mangrove trees, standing tiptoe on their myriad down-dropping roots, each root midleg in the water.
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When his joy had a little subsided, he stepped into the sea; ten miles at the first stride, which brought him midleg deep; and ten miles at the second, when the water came just above his knees; and ten miles more at the third, by which he was immersed nearly to his waist.
Myths That Every Child Should Know A Selection Of The Classic Myths Of All Times For Young People Various 1880
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His terror of the sea, although conquered for the moment, was still undiminished; had the sea been a lake of living flames, he could not have shrunk more panically from its touch; and once, when his foot slipped and he plunged to the midleg into a pool of water, the shriek that came up out of his soul was like the cry of death.
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Certainly not the blue heron, standing midleg deep in the water, obviously catching cold in a reckless disregard of wet feet and consequences; nor the mournful curlew, the dejected plover, or the low-spirited snipe, who saw fit to join him in his suicidal contemplation; nor the impassive kingfisher -- an ornithological Marius
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869
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On either side were great forests of mangrove trees, standing tiptoe on their myriad down-dropping roots, each root midleg in the water.
The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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