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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[From

Maudlin

, a contr. of

Magdalen

, OE.

Maudeleyne

, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with weeping.]

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.

Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.

Maudlin

Clarence in his malmsey butt.

Byron.

Adj.

[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.

Noun.

A plant of the genus Achillea.