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A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir.

My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women. Chaucer.

A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.

Same as Prickmadam.

Even though; although; notwithstanding. Chaucer. Albeit so masked, Madam, I love the truth. Tennyson.

Cunning; artifice; craft. Madam, I swear I use no art at all. Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. Crabb.

To come; to get. [Obs.] But, madam, where is Warwick then become! Shak. To become of, to be the present state or place of; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition of. What is then become of so huge a multitude Sir W. Raleigh.

o make destitute; to deprive; to strip; -- with of before the person or thing taken away. Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Shak. Bereft of him who taught me how to sing. Tickell.

rief or pain; to affect deeply with sorrow; hence, to disorder; to distract; to craze. O, madam, my old hear is cracked. Shak. He thought none poets till their brains were cracked. Roscommon.

all on in prayer; to implore. -- To cry you mercy, to beg your pardon. "I cry you mercy, madam; was it you" Shak.

as still survived in the deluge. F. Harrison. After me the deluge. (Aprés moi le déluge.) Madame de Pompadour.

Lady; mistress; madam; -- a title of respect used in Spain, prefixed to the Christian name of a lady.

A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.

P. Sidney. I remember how you downed Beauclerk and Hamilton, the wits, once at our house. Madame D'Arblay.

to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been changed for the French madam. Guardian.

In Germany, a woman; a married woman; a wife; -- as a title, equivalent to Mrs., Madam.

An impossibility. [Obs.] "Madam," quoth he, "this were an impossible!" Chaucer.

; to still; as, in seamen's language, a shower of rain kills the wind. Be comforted, good madam; the great rage, You see, is killed in him. Shak.

Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem. Pope.