Crossword clues for madding
madding
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mad \Mad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Madded; p. pr. & vb. n. Madding.] To make mad or furious; to madden.
Had I but seen thy picture in this plight,
It would have madded me.
--Shak.
Madding \Mad"ding\, a. 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
present participle adjective from obsolete verb mad "to make insane; to become insane" (see madden); now principally in the phrase far from the madding crowd, title of a novel by Hardy (1874), who lifted it from a line of Gray's "Elegy" (1749), which seems to echo a line from Drummond of Hawthornden from 1614 ("Farre from the madding Worldling's hoarse discords").
Wiktionary
(context archaic English): Affected with madness; raging; furious. v
(present participle of mad English)
WordNet
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]
affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad" [syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed, sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
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]
very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge between two mountains" [syn: harebrained, insane]
See mad
Usage examples of "madding".
Another night shot and no way for him to get back at Madding for bewitching him, or at her little crowd of boho friends for making fun of him every chance they could.
Salvation Army tack, where the munchies, beer, and jug wine set out on tables kept the traffic moving, making it difficult for lemmings to coagulate into madding mini-crowds.
Far Madding kept quiet when an Aes Sedai fell afoul of the law, but the Counsels had no reason to fear Aes Sedai, and for its own reasons, the Tower in turn kept quiet on those rare occasions when a sister found herself strung up for a judicial flogging.