a. & n. Going about much, needlessly or without purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Envy is a gadding passion, and walketh the streets. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The good nuns would check her gadding tongue. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gadding car, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a roving, idle manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) See Holing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with madness; raging; furious. -- Mad"ding*ly, adv. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray. [1913 Webster]

The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots raged. Milton. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The material with which anything is padded. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. London Sat. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Calico Printing) The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Wad a little mass. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A wad, or the materials for wads; any pliable substance of which wads may be made. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]