(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.
Rabies
Definition:
(n.) Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was also able to inhibit the binding both of alpha-bungarotoxin and rabies virus glycoprotein to the acetylcholine receptor.
(2) Rabies antigens were detected by direct immunofluorescence labeling in most McCoy cells of the infected culture, and specific antibodies neutralized the virus growth and CPE.
(3) The analysis of the results of both immunochemical assays showed the presence of two specific antigenic fractions of rabies virus.
(4) We analyzed cell extracts from BHK(21) cells infected with vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) and rabies virus for in vitro RNA polymerase activity.
(5) After distribution, 81% of foxes inspected were positive for tetracycline, a biomarker included in the vaccine bait and, other than one rabid fox detected close to the periphery of the treated area, no case of rabies, either in foxes or in domestic livestock, has been reported in the area.
(6) Some, but not all, of the T cells from these individuals cross-reacted with various laboratory strains of rabies virus with rabies-related viruses such as Duvenhage and Mokola.
(7) Both the tests had 100.0% sensitivity and specificity when mice brain infected with CVS strain of Rabies virus was used.
(8) A technology for preparation of purified concentrates of rabies virus has been developed permitting to use simultaneously dozens of liters of tissue culture virus-containing fluid for the preparation of a concentrate.
(9) Post-exposure protection of rabies-infected mice was observed by proximal application of axonal flow inhibitors, particularly vinblastine, to the local nerve(s).
(10) Cell-mediated immunity induced by rabies vaccination was studied in humans by the determination of specific interleukin-2 (IL-2) production in a large number of donors (postexposure immunized patients and pre-exposure immunized laboratory workers).
(11) Rabies virions in neurons were mostly found within the cluster of such ribosome-rich regions suggesting a close relationship between the two in the synthesis of virus antigen.
(12) The jackal (Canis adustus) was the predominate wildlife species involved (69%) and played a role in the epidemiology of bovine rabies in remote farm areas.
(13) Comparative nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequence analyses of the RNA and proteins of several fixed rabies virus strains have allowed detailed characterization of structural-functional relations of individual virus components.
(14) Our results suggest that NK cells of rabies patients are not fully stimulated and that this might contribute to the virulence of rabies.
(15) 228 persons have been previously vaccinated with inactivated human rabies vaccine Mérieux (HDC).
(16) Accordingly, the New York State rabies diagnostic laboratory has replaced the MIT with the in vitro procedure as a backup for the fluorescent-antibody test in the routine diagnosis of rabies.
(17) Two major tryptic glycopeptides were isolated from desialated rabies virus glycoprotein and were analyzed after protease digestion; one contained two oligosaccharide side chains and the other contained a single oligosaccharide side chain.
(18) During 1982 and 1983, the Centers for Disease Control and cooperating Middle Atlantic States and local health departments collected data on 1,610 raccoons that were submitted for rabies testing and on 133 persons who received rabies postexposure prophylaxis as a result of exposure to wild animals.
(19) Rabies virus glycoprotein and snake venom curaremimetic neurotoxins share a region of high homology (30-45 for neurotoxins and 190-203 for the glycoprotein) in the regions that are believed to be responsible for binding the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor.
(20) National Canine Rabies Control Programme finalised by the National Committee on Zoonoses has been taken up recently by the Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.