1 mid-hrif
n. m. [mid middle, hrif ventus] The mid-riff; the diaphragm, separating the heart from the stomach, etc.; also the entrails :-- Midrif disseptum, Wrt. Voc. i. 44, 51: exta, 44, 49. Wið ðæt mannes midrif ace, Herb. cont. 3, 6; Lchdm. i. 6, 21. Midrife, Lchdm. i. 88, 11. On ðam uferan hrife oððe on ðam midhrife, L. M. 2, 46; Lchdm ii. 260, 20. Of ðam midhrife, se is betweox ðære wambe and ðære lifre, 2, 56; Lchdm. ii. 278, 10. [O. Frs. mid-ref.] next word, and see hrif mid-hrif