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noun

Midge n. (Zool.)

Any one of many small, delicate, long-legged flies of the Chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite. Their larvae are usually aquatic.

A very small fly, abundant in many parts of the United States and Canada, noted for the irritating quality of its bite. Note: The name is also applied to various other small flies. See Wheat midge, under Wheat.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Midge" Quotes from Famous Books

... Ay, but what would Jenny say To such a ghostly midge as thou would'st be Sipping invisibly ...

— Collected Poems - Volume Two (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... very slender income, and the practitioners of literature and art who maintained themselves somehow on no income at all. For the leisure hours of these there were the innocent wine-shops of South Fifth Avenue, such as the Brasserie Pigault, which Bunner introduced to the readers of "The Midge" with a quaint conceit. The sign of the little cafe from without read: "A LA VILLE DE ROUEN. J. PIGAULT. LAGER BEER. FINE WINES AND LIQUEURS." But its regular patrons knew it best from within, from the warm tables they liked to scan the letters backward, ...

— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice

... gray have presented a different conception. In the glare of a million million of suns they have sent the earth spinning like a midge. Beyond the uttermost horizon they have strewn other systems, other worlds; beyond the latter, more. Wherever imagination in its weariness would set a limit, there is ...

— The Lords of the Ghostland - A History of the Ideal • Edgar Saltus

Words linked to "Midge" : Chironomidae, biting midge, gnat, family Chironomidae