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Madder

Mad \Mad\, a. [Compar. Madder; superl. Maddest.] [AS. gem?d, gem[=a]d, mad; akin to OS. gem?d foolish, OHG. gameit, Icel. mei?a to hurt, Goth. gam['a]ids weak, broken. ?.]

  1. Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.

    I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad.
    --Shak.

  2. Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.

    It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
    --Jer. 1. 88.

    And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
    --Acts xxvi. 11.

  3. Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. ``Mad demeanor.''
    --Milton.

    Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.
    --Franklin.

    The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled.
    --Jowett (Thucyd.).

  4. Extravagant; immoderate. ``Be mad and merry.''
    --Shak. ``Fetching mad bounds.''
    --Shak.

  5. Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

  6. Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.

  7. Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle. Like mad, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to run like mad. --L'Estrange. To run mad.

    1. To become wild with excitement.

    2. To run wildly about under the influence of hydrophobia; to become affected with hydrophobia.

      To run mad after, to pursue under the influence of infatuation or immoderate desire. ``The world is running mad after farce.''
      --Dryden.

Madder

Madder \Mad"der\ (m[a^]d"d[~e]r), n. [OE. mader, AS. m[ae]dere; akin to Icel. ma[eth]ra.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Rubia ( Rubia tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.

Note: Madder is sometimes used in forming pigments, as lakes, etc., which receive their names from their colors, such as madder yellow.

Field madder, an annual European weed ( Sherardia arvensis) resembling madder.

Indian madder, the East Indian Rubia cordifolia, used in the East for dyeing; -- called also munjeet.

Wild madder, Rubia peregrina of Europe; also the Galium Mollugo, a kind of bedstraw.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
madder

type of plant (in modern use Rubia tinctorum) used for making dyes, Old English mædere, from PIE *modhro- "dye plant" (cognates: Old Norse maðra, Old High German matara "madder," Polish modry, Czech modry "blue").

Wiktionary
madder

Etymology 1 a. Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye. n. 1 A herbaceous plant, (taxlink Rubia tinctorum species noshow=1), native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye obtained from the root. 2 The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye. 3 A dye made from the plant. 4 A deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye. Etymology 2

a. (en-comparativemad) Etymology 3

n. (obsolete form of mether English)

WordNet
mad
  1. adj. roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain; "she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at his friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: huffy, sore]

  2. affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]

  3. marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: delirious, excited, frantic, unrestrained]

  4. very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" [syn: harebrained, insane]

  5. [also: madding, madded, maddest, madder]

madder
  1. n. Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin [syn: Rubia tinctorum]

  2. v. color a moderate to strong red

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Wikipedia
Madder (disambiguation)

Madder is the common name for Rubia, a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family.

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Usage examples of "madder".

This method can be carried out in, for instance, dyeing a cochineal scarlet with tin crystals, a yellow from fustic and alum, a black from logwood and copperas and bluestone, a red from madder and bichrome, and the dyeing of the Alizarine colours by the use of chrome fluoride, etc.

The knight would be mad as hell about Bodger and Grift turning up on the doorstep, and even madder about the note.

Party candidate Albert Fresco sat in his kitchen madder than a sumbitch, watching a TV program showing preparations for the gubernatorial debate in downtown Tampa.

If I had possessed the necessary materials I would have written my visions down, and I might possibly have produced in my cell a still madder work than the one chosen with such insight by Cavalli.

Empire or Linge Chen that decreed Madder Loss be subdued, not directly.

Shizuka often roamed the mountains gathering wild mushrooms, mugwort to make moxa with, bugle and madder for dyes, and the other, deadlier harvest from which Kenji prepared poison.

Among them are aniline violet, iodine violet, madder, alkanet, orchil and logwood.

There were stone jars brimming with honey, preserved and dried fruits, salt meat, sainfoin, stockfeed, leather, pots and porringers, pitchers and porcelain, fragrances, essences, spices, saffron, scrim, shabrack, musk, muslin, madder, purpurin, talmigold, tragacanth, wax, and all other manner of provisions.

And then Sook would get even madder, the bricking would be more painful and prolonged, and.

Flake Wlite, Cadmium Yellow, Vermilion, Deep Madder, Cobalt Blue, and Emerald Green-and still waiting as the cost all of that clocked up for the familiar credit-expired sign to arrive, he closed the screen.

In 1870 the German chemists, Graebe and Liebermann, announced that they had succeeded in producing artificial alizarin,--the coloring matter of the madder root.

I was mad at myself for not seeing the anticline and madder at Carson, and half-sick about what was going to happen when Big Brother saw that log.

Pending the appearance of artificial alizarine, which was presently to turn the whole madder industry upside down, these more sophisticated persons were able to benefit at leisure by the ingenious processes discovered by Fabre, so that the practical result of so much assiduity, so much patient research, was absolutely nil, and he found himself as poor as ever.

Planch has some fixed notions of justice, and it appears another contender for the person of Trema came on the scene, and paid Planch more than Chenso Planch took some mixed-up vengeance against Chen and Trantor for the ruin of Madder Loss.

Trying to make a poor shipbuilder think he might have something to offer a clutch of madmen and madder women!