D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Middling

/mĭd'-əl-ĭng/ · Mid·dling · IPA /ˈmɪd(ə)lɪŋ/
01 a. Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
  1. 1.
    Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
    “Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants.” Hawthorne.