(adjective) - (1) Rash to an extreme, in allusion to March being the rutting time of hares, when they are very excitable. Mad as a March hare, as mad as a hare in the rutting season, when they are wild, flighty and strange. --Rev. James Stormonth's Dictionary of the English Language, 1884 (2) Keep him darke, He will run March mad else. --John Fletcher's Mad Lover, 1647
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(adjective) - (1) Rash to an extreme, in allusion to March being the rutting time of hares, when they are very excitable. Mad as a March hare, as mad as a hare in the rutting season, when they are wild, flighty and strange. --Rev. James Stormonth's Dictionary of the English Language, 1884 (2) Keep him darke, He will run March mad else. --John Fletcher's Mad Lover, 1647
April 22, 2018