madnep
- n 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
madison
- n 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)
- n capital of the state of Wisconsin; located in the southern part of state; site of the main branch of the University of Wisconsin
madness
- n obsolete terms for legal insanity
- n 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
- n a feeling of intense anger
- n the quality of being rash and foolish
- n unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm
poetry is a sort of divine madness
madonna
- n the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics
- n United States pop singer and sex symbol during the 1980s (born in 1958)