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An instrument to extract hairs.

oxicating 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.

Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.

Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora. Madreporic plate (Zoöl.), a perforated plate in echinoderms, through which water is admitted to the ambulacral tubes; -- called also madreporic tubercule.

Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure.

The madreporic plate of echinoderms.

A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes; especially:

ugh simple, thought. Whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. Milton.

A madrigalist.