Răb'id, a.
a. [Lat. rabidus, from rabies, rage, from rabere, to rave; It. & Sp. rabido.]
Sense 1. Furious; raging; mad; as, a rabid dog or wolf; — especially applied to animals of the canine genus affected with the distemper called rabies, and whose bite communicates hydrophobia.
With rabid hunger feed upon your kind. Dryden.
Sense 2. Pertaining to rabies or hydrophobia; as, rabid virus.