Word Meanings - MIDSHIPS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the middle of a ship; -- properly amidships.

Related words: (words related to MIDSHIPS)

• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• MIDDLE-GROUND
  That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
• MIDDLE-EARTH
  The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. Shak.
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• MIDDLEMAN
  The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers. (more info) 1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts,
• MIDDLER
  One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
• MIDDLE-AGE
  Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.
• MIDDLEMOST
  Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
• AMIDSHIPS
  In the middle of a ship, with regard to her length, and sometimes also her breadth. Totten.
• MIDDLE-AGED
  Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.