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madness
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madness
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madness
(encz) | madness,ztřeštěnost |
madness
(encz) | madness,zuřivost Zdeněk Brož |
Madness
(gcide) | Madness \Mad"ness\, n. [From Mad, a.]
1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
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2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage.
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3. Extreme folly.
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Syn: Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy;
mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration;
alienation; monomania. See Insanity.
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madness
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n 1: obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: lunacy,
madness, insaneness]
2: an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded
animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal);
rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain [syn:
rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness]
3: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman
scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury,
rage, madness]
4: the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive
through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an
insane society is total foolishness" [syn: folly,
foolishness, craziness, madness]
5: unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of
divine madness" [syn: madness, rabidity, rabidness] |
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Canine madness
(gcide) | Canine \Ca*nine"\, a. [L. caninus, fr. canis dog: cf. F. canin.
See Hound.]
1. Of or pertaining to the family Canid[ae], or dogs and
wolves; having the nature or qualities of a dog; like that
or those of a dog.
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2. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side
the incisors.
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Canine appetite, a morbidly voracious appetite; bulimia.
Canine letter, the letter r. See R.
Canine madness, hydrophobia.
Canine tooth, a tooth situated between the incisor and
bicuspid teeth, so called because well developed in dogs;
usually, the third tooth from the front on each side of
each jaw; an eyetooth, or the corresponding tooth in the
lower jaw.
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Madness
(gcide) | Madness \Mad"ness\, n. [From Mad, a.]
1. The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
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2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage.
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3. Extreme folly.
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Syn: Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy;
mania; frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration;
alienation; monomania. See Insanity.
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Moon madness
(gcide) | Moon \Moon\ (m[=oo]n), n. [OE. mone, AS. m[=o]na; akin to D.
maan, OS. & OHG. m[=a]no, G. mond, Icel. m[=a]ni, Dan. maane,
Sw. m[*a]ne, Goth. m[=e]na, Lith. men[*u], L. mensis month,
Gr. mh`nh moon, mh`n month, Skr. m[=a]s moon, month; prob.
from a root meaning to measure (cf. Skr. m[=a] to measure),
from its serving to measure the time. [root]271. Cf. Mete
to measure, Menses, Monday, Month.]
1. The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the
satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light,
borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and
serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of
the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth
is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of
the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.
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The crescent moon, the diadem of night. --Cowper.
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2. A secondary planet, or satellite, revolving about any
member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or
Saturn.
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3. The time occupied by the moon in making one revolution in
her orbit; a month; as, it's been many moons since I last
visited Washington. --Shak.
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4. (Fort.) A crescentlike outwork. See Half-moon.
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5. The deliberately exposed naked buttocks. [slang]
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Moon blindness.
(a) (Far.) A kind of ophthalmia liable to recur at
intervals of three or four weeks.
(b) (Med.) Hemeralopia.
Moon dial, a dial used to indicate time by moonlight.
Moon face, a round face like a full moon.
Moon madness, lunacy. [Poetic]
Moon month, a lunar month.
Moon trefoil (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic ({Medicago
arborea}). See Medic.
Moon year, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being
sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.
blue moon, see blue moon in the vocabulary.
many moons, a long time.
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