midden

WordNet

Oval cartouche met midden onder een sfinx. In het cartouche een Italiaanse rebus over de liefde. Enkele van de gebruikte symbolen zijn putti, zonnen, een ring en een handschoen. De op te lossen tekst is: Where love is faith / Love is solicitous is secret / Where love is jealousy / Love is blind and sees from afar / Love passes the glove and water boots them / Love, love, you are my undoing.

(n) midden
a heap of dung or refuse
(n) midden
(archeology) a mound of domestic refuse containing shells and animal bones marking the site of a prehistoric settlement

Illustrations

Links N. Stanton Gere, midden George F. Comstock, rechts Thomas Gale.

Linksboven Rufus Minor, midden boven David C. Bliss, rechtsboven George Carson, linksonder William Vosburg, midden onder Philip Phearson, rechtsonder Thomas Leary.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Midden
A dunghill.
Midden
An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

(n) midden
A dunghill; a muck-heap; a receptacle for kitchen refuse, ashes, etc. See midding. [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] Specifically
(n) midden
A prehistoric muck-heap; a kitchenmidden.

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

(n) Midden
mid′en a heap of ashes or dung (see also Kitchen-midden)

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. Dan. mögdynge, E. muck, and dung,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Scand., as Dan. mödding—mög, dung; cf. Muck.

Usage in the news

Shell midden could affirm tribe's stories of Hood Canal. kitsapsun.com

Contributed photo One of the shellfish midden dig sites in the shadow of the new Amberjack Avenue bridge. kitsapsun.com

BANGOR — Tribal and Navy archaeologists are mining a shell midden uncovered at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor for information about early Native Americans. kitsapsun.com

Musqueam plan protest at Marpole Midden to mark 100 days vigil at ancient Vancouver site. vancouversun.com

THE MIDDEN By Tom Sharpe. nytimes.com

Ancient trash dumps, or middens, such as this one at Harappa in Pakistan, are rich hunting grounds for archaeologists. edition.cnn.com

Ancient trash dumps, or middens, such as this one at Harappa in Pakistan, are rich hunting grounds for archaeologists . edition.cnn.com

Students Chris Morine, Shannon Halsey and Rachel Hunt mapped another deep trench dug through the midden in centimeters. pressrepublican.com

Usage in scientific papers

Als je een rechte hoek met het midden op de grond zet, zoals in Fig. 1.6, moeten ze te verkrijgen zijn door vierkantjes in deze wig te laten vallen.
Topological Strings and Quantum Curves

Schema van de verschillen in de dichtheid van de zon (links), een witte dwergster (midden) en een neutronenster (rechts).
Radio Pulsars

Een wegdr ijvende nevel rond een witte dwerg (het withete puntje in het midden).
Radio Pulsars

Maar als alles in het midden aankomt, kan het niet verder en met een g igantische klap stuitert een groot deel van de ster weer weg naar buiten.
Radio Pulsars

In het midden van deze nevel staat een radio pulsar.
Radio Pulsars

Usage in literature

For so say the police regulations of the wasps' nest: any stranger discovered must be slain and thrown on the midden. "The Life of the Fly" by J. Henri Fabre

Yes, look at it now; this hole here, it's the midden for the whole Brigade. "Under Fire" by Henri Barbusse

We reached houses which we could not see; walked over slippery poles set over heaven knows what middens. "The Luck of Thirteen" by Jan Gordon

There's the toon's midden, too; that's needin' a look intil. "My Man Sandy" by J. B. Salmond

I've struck across open fields, only to tumble against troughs, midden heaps, pig-styes. "Major Vigoureux" by A. T. Quiller-Couch

At last, as the night was closing in, the schooner Friendship ran on the rocks named the Black Middens. "Battles with the Sea" by R.M. Ballantyne

He was fronting us with the unspoken superiority of the fowl on its own midden, but he had a most heart-some and invigorating glow. "John Splendid" by Neil Munro

A midden in the moat broke their fall; the officials fell soft, and got safely away. "From a Terrace in Prague" by Lieut.-Col. B. Granville Baker

The next day it was thrown out upon the midden; and there it lay, no one daring to touch it. "Curious, if True" by Elizabeth Gaskell

After the first glad shock, it was our habit to rummage in the general midden outside our stockings. "Chimney-Pot Papers" by Charles S. Brooks

Usage in poetry

Nor, an thou perchance behold
How I plunge and batten on
Earth's exentrate carrion,
Deem turquoise match midden-mould
Or deny the Hawk of Gold!

"The Hawk and the Babe" by Aleister Crowley

When the old hollow'd earth is crack'd,
And when, to grasp more power and feasts,
Its ores are emptied, wasted, lack'd,
The middens of your burning beasts

"To Iron-Founders And Others" by Gordon Bottomley

Claeving furred air
Over her skull's midden; no knife
Rivals her whetted look, divining what conceit
Waylays simple girls, church-going,
And what heart's oven

"Vanity Fair" by Sylvia Plath

"O where are you going?" said reader to rider,
"That valley is fatal where furnaces burn,
Yonder's the midden whose odours will madden,
That gap is the grave where the tall return."

"O Where Are You Going?" by W H Auden