- Middle-class - A size of type between long primer and brevier. See
Type. - A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping
class. - Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.
- Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic
state. - A class of persons, especially in the Middle Ages, who
offered themselves and their property to a monastery.
- A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German
poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth
to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble
birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.
- One of the stockaded islands in Scotland and Ireland
which in ancient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries.
They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric
strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic
times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings,
under Lake.