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.
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. 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 Mad (Mad), n. [AS. maa; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and prob. to E. moth.] (Zoöl.) An earthworm.
[Written also made.]
Madam (Mad"am) n.; pl. Madams, or Mesdames [See Madame.] A gentlewoman; an appellation
or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; much used in
the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is
Sir.
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