Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Midland

Midland , adjective

1.
Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants. — Howell
2.
Surrounded by the land; mediterranean.
And on the midland sea the French had awed. — Dryden

Midland , noun

The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural. — Drayton