Mad"cap`, n. A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent
person. Shak.
Mad"den (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maddened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Maddening.] To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite
violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.
Mad"den, v. i. To become mad; to act as if mad.
They rave, recite, and madden round the land.
Pope.
Mad"der (md"dr), n. [OE. mader, AS. mædere; akin to Icel. maðra.]
(Bot.) A plant of the genus Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used
in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in
France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.
Madder is sometimes used in forming pigments, as lakes, etc., which
receive their names from their colors; as. madder yellow.
Field madder, an annual European weed (Sherardia arvensis) resembling
madder. -- Indian madder , the East Indian Rubia cordifolia, used in
the East for dyeing; -- called also munjeet. -- Wild madder, Rubia
peregrina of Europe; also the Galium Mollugo, a kind of bedstraw.
Mad"der*wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A name proposed for any plant of the same
natural order (Rubiaceæ) as the madder.
Mad"ding (?), a. Affected with madness; raging; furious. --
Mad"ding*ly, adv. [Archaic]
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.
Gray.
The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged.
Milton.
Mad"dish (?), a. Somewhat mad. Beau. & Fl.
Made (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Mad, n.
Made (?), imp. & p. p. of Make.
Made, a. Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in;
as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a
single spar.
Made up. (a) Complete; perfect. "A made up villain." Shak. (b) Falsely
devised; fabricated; as, a made up story. (c) Artificial; as, a made up
figure or complexion.
{ Mad"e*cass (?), Mad`e*cas"see (?), } n. A native or inhabitant of
Madagascar, or Madecassee; the language of the natives of Madagascar.
See Malagasy.
Mad`e*cas"see, a. Of or pertaining to Madagascar or its inhabitants.
{ Mad`e*fac"tion (?), Mad`e*fi*ca"tion (?), } n. [L. madefacere to make
wet; madere to be wet + facere to make: cf. F. madéfaction.] The act of
madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. [R.]
Bacon.
Mad"e*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Madefied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Madefying (?).] [Cf. F. madéfier, L. madefacere. See Madefaction.] To
make wet or moist. [R.]
Mad`e*gas"sy (?), n. & a. See Madecassee.
Ma*dei"ra (?), n. [Pg., the Island Madeira, properly, wood, fr. L.
materia stuff, wood. The island was so called because well wooded. See
Matter.] A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira.
A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg.
Shak.
Madeira nut (Bot.), the European walnut; the nut of the Juglans regia.
||Ma`de*moi`selle" (?), n.; pl. Mesdemoiselles (#). [F., fr. ma my, f.
||of mon + demoiselle young lady. See Damsel.] 1. A French title of
||courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the
||English Miss. Goldsmith.
2. (Zoöl.) A marine food fish (Sciæna chrysura), of the Southern United
States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.
Madge, n. [Cf. OF. & Prov. F. machette.] (Zoöl.) (a) The barn owl. (b)
The magpie.
Mad"-head`ed (?), a. Wild; crack- brained.
Mad"house` (?), n. A house where insane persons are confined; an insane
asylum; a bedlam.
||Ma"di*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Sp. madi, fr. Chilian madi, the native
||name.] (Bot.) A genus of composite plants, of which one species
||(Madia sativa) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by
||pressure. This oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil for the
||table.
Mad"id (?), a. [L. madidus, fr. madere to be wet.] Wet; moist; as, a
madid eye. [R.] Beaconsfield.
||Mad`is*te"ri*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Surg.) An instrument to
||extract hairs.
||Mad"joun (?), n. [Hind., fr. Ar. ma'j&?;n.] An intoxicating
||confection from the hemp plant; -- used by the Turks and Hindoos.
||[Written also majoun.]
Mad"ly (?), adv. [From Mad, a.] In a mad manner; without reason or
understanding; wildly.
Mad"man (?), n.; pl. Madmen (&?;). A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy
person.
When a man mistakes his thoughts for person and things, he is mad.
A madman is properly so defined.
Coleridge.
Mad"nep (?), n. (Bot.) The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).
Mad"ness, n. [From Mad, a.] 1. The condition of being mad; insanity;
lunacy.