Maudlin
Maudlin , adjective
[From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, Old English 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.
Maudlin eloquence.
A maudlin poetess.
Maudlin crowd.
2.
Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness.
Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt.
Maudlin , noun
(Botany) An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
Also: Maudeline