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mid-sea
The middle of the sea, the open sea.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 73 Thee Creet Ile in mydseas dooth stand too Iuppiter hallowd. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 403 Shoales Of Fish that with thir Finns & shining Scales Glide under the green Wave, in Sculles that oft Bank the mid Sea. 1853Grote Greece ii. lxxxiv. XI. 123 A gentle and steady Etesian breeze carried them across midsea without accident or suffering. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxiv. 167 He rides far already, the mid sea's boundary cleaving.
b. attrib. quasi-adj.
1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf D vj b, When it was not yet enlarged with hir Italian dominions and midsea Iles. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. viii. 153 Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters. |