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]