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Mad·ding a. Affected with madness; raging; furious. -- Mad*ding*ly, adv. [Archaic]
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. --Gray.
The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots raged. --Milton.
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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
adj 1: roused to anger; "stayed huffy a good while"- Mark Twain;
"she gets mad when you wake her up so early"; "mad at
his friend"; "sore over a remark" [syn: huffy, sore]
2: affected with madness or insanity; "a man who had gone mad"
[syn: brainsick, crazy, demented, distracted, disturbed,
sick, unbalanced, unhinged]
3: marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of
delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their
gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: delirious, excited,
frantic, unrestrained]
4: very foolish; "harebrained ideas"; "took insane risks behind
the wheel"; "a completely mad scheme to build a bridge
between two mountains" [syn: harebrained, insane]
[also: madding, madded, maddest, madder]