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,
adv. In a roving, idle manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Mining) See Holing. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Affected with madness; raging; furious. --
Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray. [1913 Webster]
The madding wheels
Of brazen chariots raged. Milton. [1913 Webster]
n.
n. [ See Wad a little mass. ] [ 1913 Webster ]