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Maudlin
Maudlin Maud"lin, Maudeline Maude"line, n. (Bot.) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
Maudlin
Maudlin Maud"lin, a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, OE. Maudeleyne, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with weeping.] 1. Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. ``Maudlin eyes.' --Dryden. ``Maudlin eloquence.' --Roscommon. ``A maudlin poetess.' --Pope. ``Maudlin crowd.' --Southey. 2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.

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- Look up maudlin in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Maudlin may refer to: Daniel Maudlin, British historian Tim Maudlin (born 1968), American philosopher...
- Maudlins Cemetery is a Church of Ireland cemetery located in Naas, Ireland. It is notable for its two large pyramid-shaped mausoleums, and as the burial...
- representations of Mary Magdalene in tears are the source of the modern English word maudlin, meaning 'sickeningly sentimental or emotional'. In medieval depictions...
- Tim William Eric Maudlin (born April 23, 1958) is an American philosopher of science who has done influential work on the metaphysical foundations of...
- college in English. The college's name is pronounced like the adjective maudlin because the late medieval English name of Mary Magdalene was Maudelen,...
- The Maudlin Years is a 1996 album by country artist Amy Allison. It compiled songs she recorded with a group called "the Maudlins", as well as some of...
- Maudlin of the Well (stylized as maudlin of the Well; commonly abbreviated as motW) is an avant-garde metal band from Boston, M****achusetts. Their music...
- As a literary mode, sentimentalism, the practice of being sentimental, and thus tending towards making emotions and feelings the basis of a person's actions...
- po****r enough that another poem was written in reply: "Mad Maudlin's Search" or "Mad Maudlin's Search for Her Tom of Bedlam" (she may be meant to be the...
- Magdalene College (/ˈmɔːdlɪn/ MAWD-lin) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel...