Midwinter \Mid"win`ter\, n. [AS. midwinter.] The middle of winter. --Dryden.
After the crash, the Fed loosened money supplies again in midwinter, when rising business inventories raised concern that the economy was softening.
Winter wheat is planted in the fall and normally is dormant during midwinter cold before starting to grow again when warmer weather returns.
Snow, which once blanketed the area from fall to spring, now is sparse, with midwinter melts occurring most years.
"A fundamental shift has taken place in American government," Gov. Gerald Baliles of Virginia, chairman of the National Governors' Association, told a news conference at the end of the group's annual midwinter meeting.
Colleagues found his coat in his office, though it was midwinter, but found no clues to his whereabouts.