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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.

Mad, v. i. To be mad; to go mad;
to rave. See Madding. [Archaic] Chaucer.

Festus said with great voice, Paul thou
maddest.

Wyclif (Acts).

Mad, n. [AS. ma&?;a; akin to D.
& G. made, Goth. mapa, and prob. to E. moth.]
(Zoöl.) An earthworm. [Written also
made.]

Mad"am (?), n.; pl.
Madams, or Mesdames (#). [See
Madame.] 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.

||Ma`dame" (?), n.; pl.
Mesdames (#).

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