LekhoriLekhoriA herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
Obsolete form of mether.
Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up, A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup, O there is the sport! […]
Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.
comparative form of mad: more mad
From Middle English mader, madere, mædere, from Old English mædere, mæddre, mædre, from Proto-Germanic *madarǭ (compare Swedish madra, Old Norse / Icelandic maðra), from Proto-Indo-European *modʰro-, ...
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