Midst

1. adv. In the middle.
2. n. The interior or central part or place; the middle; — used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.
3. n. Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs.
4. prep. In the midst of; amidst.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.