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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. OF. & Prov. F.

machette

(Zool.)

(a)

The barn owl.

(b)

The magpie.

See also: madge

Madge

A diminutive of the female given name Margaret or, rarely, Madonna.
- ~1886 William Ernest Henley, A Ballade of Ladies' Names, Gleeson White:Ballades and Rondeaus, Read Books 1887, page 19:
  Fie upon Caroline, Madge, Amelia - / These I reckon the essence of prose!
(obsolete, slang) The ****.
- 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, VI:
  SALLY, who began to be tir'd with her Canonis'd Suitor, drew up the Curtain, alias her Hoop-Petticoat, &c. and clapping her Hand upon Madge, said, Ecce Signum, Doctor. This is my only Support, and I hope will continue so to my Life's End.

See also: Madge

madge ‎(plural madges)