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maudlin

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Maudlin  \Maud"lin\,  Maudeline  \Maude"line\,  n.  (Bot.) 
  An  aromatic  composite  herb,  the  costmary;  also  the  South 
  European  Achillea  Ageratum,  a  kind  of  yarrow. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Maudlin  \Maud"lin\,  a.  [From  Maudlin,  a  contr.  of  Magdalen,  OE 
  Maudeleyne  who  is  drawn  by  painters  with  eyes  swelled  and 
  red  with  weeping.] 
  1.  Tearful;  easily  moved  to  tears;  exciting  to  tears; 
  excessively  sentimental;  weak  and  silly.  ``Maudlin  eyes.'' 
  --Dryden.  ``Maudlin  eloquence.''  --Roscommon.  ``A  maudlin 
  poetess.''  --Pope.  ``Maudlin  crowd.''  --Southey. 
 
  2.  Drunk,  or  somewhat  drunk;  fuddled;  given  to  drunkenness. 
 
  Maudlin  Clarence  in  his  malmsey  butt.  --Byron. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  maudlin 
  adj  :  effusively  or  insincerely  emotional;  "a  bathetic  novel"; 
  "maudlin  expressons  of  sympathy";  "mushy  effusiveness"; 
  "a  schmaltzy  song";  "sentimental  soap  operas";  "slushy 
  poetry"  [syn:  {bathetic},  {mawkish},  {mushy},  {schmaltzy}, 
  {schmalzy},  {sentimental},  {slushy}]




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