MADDEN
Mad"den, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maddened; p. pr. & vb. n. Maddening.]
Defn: To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.
MADDEN
Mad"den, v. i.
Defn: To become mad; to act as if mad.
They rave, recite, and madden round the land. Pope.
MADDER
Mad"der, n. Etym: [OE. mader, AS. mædere; akin to Icel. ma.] (Bot.)
Defn: A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.
Note: Madder is sometimes used in forming pigments, as lakes, etc., which receive their names from their colors; as. madder yellow. Field madder, an annual European weed (Sherardia arvensis) resembling madder. — Indian madder , the East Indian Rubia cordifolia, used in the East for dyeing; — called also munjeet. — Wild madder, Rubia peregrina of Europe; also the Galium Mollugo, a kind of bedstraw.
MADDERWORT
Mad"der*wort`, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order
(Rubiaceæ) as the madder.
MADDING
Mad"ding, a.