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Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements. "The merry madcap

To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

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.

See Mad, n.

A native or inhabitant of Madagascar, or Madecassee; the language of the natives of Madagascar. See Malagasy.

Of or pertaining to Madagascar or its inhabitants.

The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. [R.] Bacon.

To make wet or moist. [R.]

See Madecassee.

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.

ia 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 magpie.

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.