From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Maudlin \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.
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2. Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
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Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. --Byron.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Maudlin \Maud"lin\, Maudeline \Maude"line\, n. (Bot.)
An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South
European {Achillea Ageratum}, a kind of yarrow.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
maudlin
adj 1: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness";
"a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {drippy}, {hokey}, {maudlin},
{mawkish}, {kitschy}, {mushy}, {schmaltzy}, {schmalzy},
{sentimental}, {soppy}, {soupy}, {slushy}]
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