mean (noun) — sense 4

An intermediate step or intermediate steps.

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Example
a. 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Apply desperate physic: / We must not now use balsamum, but fire, / The smarting cupping-glass, for that's the mean / To purge infected blood, such blood as hers.
Order number
4
Part of speech
noun

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