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12 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mad \Mad\, n. [Cf. W. mad a male child, a boy.] 1. A slattern. [Prov. Eng.] 2. The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence sometimes any fairy. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mad \Mad\, obs. p. p. of {Made}. --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. [Colloq.] 7. Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle. [Colloq.] {Like mad}, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as to run like mad. --L'Estrange. {To run mad}. a To become wild with excitement. b 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mad \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). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mad \Mad\, n. [AS. ma?a; akin to D. & G. made Goth. mapa, and prob. to E. moth.] (Zo["o]l.) An earthworm. [Written also {made}.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mad adj 1: (informal) 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}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: MAD1. {Michigan Algorithm Decoder}. 2. A {data flow} language. ["Implementation of Data Structures on a Data Flow Computer", D.L. Bowen, Ph.D. Thesis, Victoria U Manchester, Apr 1981]. (1999-12-10) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: MAD Memory Address Driver strength (BIOS) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: MAD Militaerischer AbschirmDienst (mil., org.) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: MAD Message Address Directory From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: MAD, adj Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.
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