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A herbaceous climbing vine (Boussingaultia baselloides) very popular in cultivation, having shining entire leaves and racemes of small fragrant white flowers.

The mahogany tree (Swietenia Mahogoni).

A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith.

The barn owl.

A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.

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.

Wet; moist; as, a madid eye. [R.] Beaconsfield.

An instrument to extract hairs.

An intoxicating confection from the hemp plant; -- used by the Turks and Hindoos. [Written also majoun.]

In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.

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.

The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.

My lady; -- a term of address in Italian formerly used as the equivalent of Madame, but for which Signora is now substituted. Sometimes introduced into English. Shak.

A small Abyssinian antelope (Neotragus Saltiana), about the size of a hare.

A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

A large silk-and-cotton kerchief, usually of bright colors, such as those often used by negroes for turbans.

Mother-of-pearl.

It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched. -- Mad`re*po"ral, a.

oa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa. -- Mad`re*po*ra"ri*an, a. & n.