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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Maud"lin, Maude"line (?), n. Bot.
An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
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