(n.) The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy.
() p. p. of Made.
(superl.) Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.
(superl.) 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.
(superl.) Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.
(superl.) Extravagant; immoderate.
(superl.) Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.
(superl.) Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.
(superl.) Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.
(v. t.) To make mad or furious; to madden.
(v. i.) To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.
(n.) An earthworm.
Example Sentences:
(1) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
(2) Right from the beginning, I had been mad about movies.
(3) "This will be not only be a postcode lottery, but a States vs Europe lottery and that would be madness."
(4) It took years of prep work to make this sort of Übermensch thing socially acceptable, let alone hot – lots of “legalize it!” and “you are economic supermen!” appeals to the balled-and-entitled toddler-fists of the sociopathic libertechian madding crowd to really get mechanized mass-death neo-fascism taken mainstream .
(5) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
(6) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
(7) If you’re against the RFS, you’re going to make Iowans mad, you’re going to [have] some Iowans question you but the beauty of Iowa is you can take your case to the people,” said Kaufmann.
(8) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
(9) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
(10) It’s good to hear a full-throated defence of social security as a basic principle of civilisation, and a reiteration of the madness of renewing Trident; pleasing too to behold how much Burnham and Cooper have had to belatedly frame their arguments in terms of fundamental principle.
(11) The blue skipping rope – that’s the key to this race.” My eight-year-old daughter looked at me like I was mad … but when it came time for the year 3 skipping race, she did as she was told – and duly chalked up a glorious personal best in third place.
(12) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
(13) Maleic acid dimethylester (MAD) was investigated in acute and subacute dermal toxicity studies, for sensitization potential, and for in vivo and in vitro genotoxicity.
(14) Or maybe it's the other way round - the constant touring is a manifestation of their madness.
(15) And while one may think that the bishops of the Church of England don’t quite have the sex appeal of Russell Brand, we think that we should counter it.” While the bishops stress that their letter is not intended as “a shopping list of policies we would like to see”, they do advocate a number of specific steps, including a re-examination of the need for Trident, a retention of the commitment to funding overseas aid and a reassessment of areas where regulations fuel “the common perception of ‘health and safety gone mad’”.
(16) He still thinks Labour was mad to get him of all people to work inside the system.
(17) That has changed over the past few years as wallpaper has made a comeback and women have remembered that they like wearing madly patterned dresses – particularly leopard-print ones, or ones with huge flowers.
(18) Seeing the performance later in Edinburgh, I was impressed by Briers' ability to encompass the hero's rage and madness.
(19) It would be hard to allow working from home if I thought that they were all watching box sets of Mad Men.
(20) People thought she'd gone mad, but in retrospect it's clear that this was precisely what she needed in order to move forward.
Maid
Definition:
(n.) An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
(n.) A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
(n.) A female servant.
(n.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).
Example Sentences:
(1) However, by day 21 after Giardia infection, mice with MAIDS failed to clear the Giardia cysts from the intestine while the control mice were completely free of cysts.
(2) Riyadh recently rejected demands from Manila for medical insurance for maids and for information on employers to be supplied before their departure.
(3) In his 1934 work English Journey, Priestley spoke of three Englands: the so-called "real, enduring England", which spoke to Boyle's bucolic "Jerusalem" opening with its maypoles and cricket, maids and mummery.
(4) It is the England that then prime minister John Major vowed would never vanish in a famous 1993 speech: “Long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and – as George Orwell said – ‘old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist’.” Major was mining Orwell’s wartime essay The Lion and the Unicorn, whose tone was one of reassurance – the national culture will survive, despite everything: “The gentleness, the hypocrisy, the thoughtlessness, the reverence for law and the hatred of uniforms will remain, along with the suet puddings and the misty skies.” Orwell and Major were both asserting the strength of a national culture at times when Britishness – for both men basically Englishness – was felt to be under threat from outside dangers (war, integration into Europe).
(5) Frequencies of prestimulation calcium-positive cells among both CD4+ and CD8+ cells in mice with MAIDS were significantly higher than those for uninfected mice.
(6) He was by this time married to Ethel, daughter of the Chichester Cathedral sacristan, and had already committed adultery with their maid-of-all-work Lizzie.
(7) • Where to stay: Ipanema Penthouse (three-bedroom flats from $250 a night, including maid service).
(8) In 2010 Liliane Peretz, a maid, who had worked for the couple for six years, took a case to the Israeli labour court alleging she had been humiliated and that the prime minister's wife had insisted she change her clothing during the day to remain hygienic.
(9) Recently, a murine retrovirus (LpBM5 MuLV), which induces immunodeficiency syndrome in mice, termed MAIDS, has been found to have several features similar to those seen in human acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).
(10) Lena Baker, a black maid, was executed in 1945 after being convicted in a one-day trial of killing her white employer.
(11) Although MAIDS and AIDS are not identical and are induced by retroviruses of different classes, the availability of such a model in an easily accessible small animal species, whose genetics is very sophisticated, may be instrumental in understanding the pathogenesis of AIDS if some of the cellular and molecular affected pathways are common in both diseases.
(12) The types of food presented were significantly associated with the nationality of the maid.
(13) One company spokesman points out that otherwise "these women would be in the fields, in ship-breaking or shrimp farming, working as maids".
(14) You need to be very careful who you let in, that's why it's very important to have a maid.
(15) When you tire of that, you can pay Candy Fruit Refresh maids to clean your ears – or even just talk to you.
(16) Penetrance of resistance to disease associated with expression of H-2Dd was markedly influenced by MHC genes mapping to the left of H-2D and by non-MHC loci such that some strains bearing this gene were highly susceptible to MAIDS.
(17) The variables with a significant coefficient of association with early termination of breast feeding were maternal education, past experience with breast feeding, help of a maid, help with housework provided by a relative, breast feeding orientation during prenatal care and encouragement from the husband.
(18) The maid, Monika, "the prime originator" of Freud's neurosis, seduced him, chastised him, and taught him of hell.
(19) Perhaps Mrs Patmore would get her hand stuck in the new electric mixer, or footmen Alfred and Jimmy's rivalry would come to a head with some gloves-off fisticuffs – certainly not the brutal rape of lady's maid and viewers' favourite Anna Bates .
(20) The corporation said the third series of the show would see Robin Hood return "older and tougher" and "hellbent on revenge" following the murder of Maid Marian by Gisborne and the failure of the Sheriff of Nottingham, played by Keith Allen, to kill Prince John.