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madder | madden |

As a noun madder

is a herbaceous plant, , native to asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye obtained from the root or madder can be .

As an adjective madder

is of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye or madder can be (mad).

As a proper noun madden is

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madder

English

(wikipedia madder)

Etymology 1

(etyl) , from Germanic, perhaps from an Indo-European base meaning "blue." Cognate with (etyl) madra.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A herbaceous plant, , native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye obtained from the root.
  • The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
  • A dye made from the plant.
  • A deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

    • Synonyms

    * (Rubia tinctorum) common madder, dyer's madder
    Derived terms
    * (field madder) * Indian madder * madder yellow * rose madder * wild madder

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

    • Related terms

    * alizarin

    See also

    * bedstraw * bluets * genipap *

    Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (mad)

    • Etymology 3

    From mead

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) " O'Rourke's Feast":
    • Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up,
    A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup,
    O there is the sport!

    References

    * Tenison, Thomas Joseph (1860) "On Methers and Other Ancient Drinking Vessels" Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society Vol.3NS No.1 p.54

    Anagrams

    *

    madden

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make angry.
  • To make insane; to inflame with passion.
  • (obsolete) To become furious.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1855, title=Westward Ho!, author=Charles Kingsley citation
    • , passage=The rascal saw his advantage, and began a fierce harangue against the heretic strangers. As he maddened , his hearers maddened; the savage nature, capricious as a child's, flashed out in wild suspicion. Women yelled, men scowled, and ran hastily to their huts for bows and blow-guns.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1870, title=Irish folk lore, author=John O'Hanlon, page=71 citation
    • , passage=And as he maddened at the thought, honest Fergus, too, forgot himself, and added in an excited strain, " I wish one end o' the hog's puddin' was sthuck in yer nose, you foolish craythur!"}}

    Anagrams

    * * English ergative verbs