Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Midden

Midden , noun

[Compare Danish mogdynge, English muck, and dung.]

1.
A dunghill. [Provincial English]
2.
An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.