MAUD'LIN, adjective [corrupted from Magdelen, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with weeping.] Drunk; fuddled; approaching to intoxication; stupid. And the kind maudlin crowd melts in her praise. MAUD'LIN, noun A plant of the genus Achillea.
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