Madame de Stael
1: French romantic writer (1766-1817) [syn: {Stael}, {Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Steal-Holstein}]
Madame Tussaud
1: French modeler (resident in England after 1802) who made wax death masks of prominent victims of the French Revolution and toured Britain with her wax models; in 1835 she opened a permanent waxwork...
madcap
1: characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "mad...
madden
1: cause to go crazy; cause to lose one's mind [syn: {craze}] 2: drive up the wall; go on someone's nerves 3: make mad; "His behavior is maddening"
maddened
1: marked by extreme anger; "the enraged bull attached"; "furious about the accident"; "a furious scowl"; "infuriated onlookers charged the police who were beating the boy"; "could not control the mad...
maddening
1: extremely annoying or displeasing; "his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating"; "I've had an exasperating day"; "her infuriating indifference"; "the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was madde...
madder family
1: widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry [syn: {Rubiaceae}, {family Rubiaceae}...
madderwort
1: any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae [syn: {rubiaceous plant}]
made use of
1: put to use [syn: {employed}, {made use of(p)}]
made-to-order
1: built for a particular individual [syn: {custom-built}] 2: of clothing [syn: {bespoke}, {bespoken}, {tailored}, {tailor-made}]
made-up
1: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story" [syn: {fabricated}, {fancied}, ...
Madeira
1: a Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River [syn: {Madeira River}] 2: amber-colored dessert wine from Madeira
Madeira cake
1: a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine [syn: {Madeira sponge}]
Madeira Islands
1: a group of volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco
Madeira River
1: a Brazilian river; tributary of the Amazon River [syn: {Madeira}]
Madeira sponge
1: a rich sponge cake with close texture; intended to be eaten with a glass of Madeira wine [syn: {Madeira cake}]
Madeira winter cherry
1: small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit [syn: {Jerusalem cherry}, {winter cherry}, {Solanum pseudocapsicum}]
mademoiselle
1: small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico [syn: {silver perch}, {Bairdiella chrysoura}] [also: {mesdemoiselles} (pl)]
madhouse
1: pejorative terms for an insane asylum [syn: {Bedlam}, {booby hatch}, {crazy house}, {cuckoo's nest}, {funny farm}, {funny house}, {loony bin}, {nut house}, {nuthouse}, {sanatorium}, {snake pit}]
Madia
1: genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light [syn: {genus Madia}]
Madia elegans
1: California annual having red-brown spots near the base of its yellow flower rays [syn: {common madia}, {common tarweed}]
madia oil
1: used as a substitute for olive oil
madia oil plant
1: South American herb with sticky glandular foliage; source of madia oil [syn: {melosa}, {Chile tarweed}, {Madia sativa}]
Madia sativa
1: South American herb with sticky glandular foliage; source of madia oil [syn: {melosa}, {Chile tarweed}, {madia oil plant}]
Madison
1: 4th President of the United States; member of the Continental Congress and rapporteur at the Constitutional Convention in 1776; helped frame the Bill of Rights (1751-1836) [syn: {James Madison}, {P...
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madly
1: in a desperate manner; "she fought back madly" 2: in an insane manner; "she behaved insanely"; "he behaves crazily when he is off his medication"; "the witch cackled madly"; "screaming dementedly" ...
madman
1: an insane person [syn: {lunatic}, {maniac}]
madnep
1: biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip [syn: {wild parsnip}]
madness
1: obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: {lunacy}, {insaneness}] 2: an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies i...
Madonna
1: the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics [syn: {Mary}, {Virgin Mary}, {The Virgin}, {Blessed Virgin}] 2: United States pop singe...
Madonna lily
1: lily of eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers [syn: {white lily}, {Annunciation lily}, {Lent lily}, {Lilium candidum}]
Madonna Louise Ciccone
1: United States pop singer and sex symbol during the 1980s (born in 1958) [syn: {Madonna}]
Madoqua
1: genus comprising some small antelopes of eastern and northeastern Africa [syn: {genus Madoqua}]
Madras
1: a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras [syn: {Tamil Nadu}] 2: a city in Tamil Nadu on the Bay of Bengal; formerly Madras [syn: {Chennai}] 3: a...
madrasa
1: Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan; "the Pakistan government decided to close down madrasas that provided military training for their students"; "many madrasas in Bangladesh are supported wi...
madrasah
1: Muslim schools in Bangladesh and Pakistan; "the Pakistan government decided to close down madrasas that provided military training for their students"; "many madrasas in Bangladesh are supported wi...
madrepore
1: corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands [syn: {stony coral}, {madriporian coral}]
Madrid
1: the capital and largest city situated centrally in Spain; home of an outstanding art museum [syn: {capital of Spain}, {Spanish capital}]
madrigal
1: an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form v : sing madrigals; "The group was madrigaling beautifully"
madrilene
1: a tomato-flavored consomme; often served chilled
madriporian coral
1: corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands [syn: {stony coral}, {madrepore}]
madrona
1: evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning [syn: {madrono}, {manzanita}, {Arbutus...
madrono
1: evergreen tree of the Pacific coast of North America having glossy leathery leaves and orange-red edible berries; wood used for furniture and bark for tanning [syn: {madrona}, {manzanita}, {Arbutus...
madwort
1: any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers [syn: {alyssum}]
Mae West
1: United States film actress (1892-1980) [syn: {West}] 2: an inflatable life jacket [syn: {air jacket}]
Maeandra
1: brain corals [syn: {genus Maeandra}]
maelstrom
1: a powerful circular current of water (usually the resulting of conflicting tides) [syn: {whirlpool}, {vortex}]
maenad
1: an unnaturally frenzied or distraught woman 2: (Greek mythology) a woman participant in the orgiastic rites of Dionysus
maestro
1: an artist of consummate skill; "a master of the violin"; "one of the old masters" [syn: {master}] [also: {maestri} (pl)]
Maeterlinck
1: Belgian playwright (1862-1949) [syn: {Count Maurice Maeterlinck}]
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