madeficationt (madefikashon)

[ The time was when the Bonners and butchers rode over the faces of God's saints, and madefied the earth with their bloods. Rev. T. Adams , Works, I. 85. ( Davies .) Madega yt (mad-e-gas'i), a . and n. [See Mala gasy .] Same as Malagasy . Madeira (ma-dā'rä), n. IMG:content-0048.png:[blocks in formation] Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray, Elegy. Then schemes I framed more calmly, when and how The madding factions might be tranquillized. Words worth, Prelude, x. maddingly (mad'ing-li), adv . In a mad way; distractedly; wildly. Run maddingly affrighted through the villages. East India Madeira, Madeira which has been sent in Fletcher , Women Pleased, iv. 1. cask to the East Indies and back again, with the view of cla made in the island of Madeira. It acmatter: see matter. ] A fine wine of the sherry quires by age peculiar excellence of flavor. .. T. W. Higginson, Atlantic E ays, p. 159. 2. A distinctive title given to girls and unmarried women in France, equivalent to Mi : abbreviated in writing to Mlle . , pl. Mlles .-3. A sciænoid fish, the yellowtail or silver perch, Bairdiella chrysura. [Local, U. S.] madgel (maj), n. [A ibilated form of mag1, like the orig. Madge, a ibilated form of Mag, abbr. of Margaret, a fem. name: see mag1, margaret.] 1. The magpie, Pica rustic a: same as mag1, 1.-21. A madge-owl. The skritch-owl, us'd in falling towrs to lodge, Th' unlucky night-raven, and thou lasie madge That, fearing light, still seekest where to hide, The hate and scorn of all the birds beside. Du Bartas (trans.). ( Nares.) IMG:content-0049.png:[blocks in formation] I'll sit in a barn with madge - howlet, and catch mice first. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, ii. 2. The owlet or barn.