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The jackdaw.

of Lead, to guide. Chaucer.

cross strips or rounds forming steps. Some the engines play, And some, more bold, mount ladders to the fire. Dryden.

A lad; a male sweetheart. [Scot.]

To become mad; to act as if mad. They rave, recite, and madden round the land. Pope.

A plant of the 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.

A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceæ) as the madder.

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.

Somewhat mad. Beau. & Fl.

Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. W. D. Howells.

Had not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An adder. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See under 2d Pack.

One who, or that which, pads.

The material with which anything is padded.

To dabble in water with hands or feet; to use a paddle, or something which serves as a paddle, in swimming, in paddling a boat, etc. As the men were paddling for their lives. L'Estrange. While paddling ducks the standing lake desire. Gay.

The lumpfish. [Prov. Eng.]

A large ganoid fish (Polyodon spathula) found in the rivers of the Mississippi Valley. It has a long spatula-shaped snout. Called also duck-billed cat, and spoonbill sturgeon.

One who, or that which, paddles.

The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree of Guiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.