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] (Bot.)
A genus of composite plants, of which one species (Madia
sativa) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by
pressure. This oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil for the
table.

Mad"id (?), a. [L. madidus, fr.
madere to be wet.] Wet; moist; as, a madid
eye. [R.] Beaconsfield.

||Mad`is*te"ri*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
&?;.] (Surg.) An instrument to extract hairs.

||Mad"joun (?), n. [Hind., fr. Ar.
ma'j&?;n.] An intoxicating confection from the hemp
plant; -- used by the Turks and Hindoos. [Written also
majoun.]

Mad"ly (?), adv. [From Mad,
a.] In a mad manner; without reason or
understanding; wildly.

Mad"man (?), n.; pl.
Madmen (&?;). 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.

Mad"nep (?), n.

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