[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

midst \midst\, n. from middest, in the middest, for older in
   middes, where -s is adverbial orig. forming a genitive, or
   still older a midde, a midden, on midden. see mid, and cf.
   amidst.
   1913 webster
   1. the interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used
      chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst
      of the forest.
      1913 webster

            and when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he
            came out of him.                      --luke iv. 35.
      1913 webster

            there is nothing . . . in the midst of the play
            which might not have been placed in the beginning.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or
      beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official
      duties; in the midst of secular affairs.
      1913 webster

   note: the expressions in our midst, in their midst, etc., are
         avoided by some good writers, the forms in the midst of
         us, in the midst of them, etc., being preferred.
         1913 webster

   syn: midst, middle.

   usage: midst in present usage commonly denotes a part or
          place surrounded on enveloped by or among other parts
          or objects see amidst; while middle is used of the
          center of length, or surface, or of a solid, etc. we
          say in the midst of a thicket; in the middle of a
          line, or the middle of a room; in the midst of
          darkness; in the middle of the night.
          1913 webster
see also:
mid amidst midst middle 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

midst \midst\, prep.
   in the midst of; amidst. --shak.
   1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

midst \midst\, adv.
   in the middle. r. --milton.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

midst
     n : the location of something surrounded by other things; "in
         the midst of the crowd" syn: thick
see also:
thick 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

32 moby thesaurus words for "midst":
   amid, amidst, among, amongst, between, betwixt,
   betwixt and between, center, core, diameter, diaphragm, equator,
   heart, interior, kernel, mean, median, mid, middle, midmost,
   midpoint, midriff, nucleus, over, thick, thick of things,
   throughout, together with, waist, waistline, with, zone

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