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Help on Dictionary Entry Print Save Email Cite Text size: A A maple, n.¹ falsefalse View as: Outline \| Full entry Keywords: On \| Off Quotations: Show all \| Hide all $Revision$ Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈmeɪpl/ , U.S. /ˈmeɪpəl/ Forms: ME mapel, ME mapell, ME mapil, ME mapill, ME mapole, ME mappil, ME mappill, ME mapul, ME mapulle, ME mapyl, ME– maple, 15 mapull, 15–16 (17 (North American)) mapple, 16 mapell (North American), 16 mayple (North American). (Show Less) Frequency (in current use): Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: English mapulder ; maple tree n. Etymology: Either shortened < Old English mapulder maple tree (see maple tree n.), on the analogy of Old English æppel apple n. and Old English apulder apple tree n.; or short for maple tree n. The word is attested early as an element in place names: e.g. in the Domesday Book (1086) as Mapletune (Mappleton, Derby) and Mapletone (Mappleton, East Riding, Yorkshire); compare also Mepelesbarwe (Mappleborough Green, Warwickshire) recorded in a 12th-cent. copy of a Latin charter of c848 of doubtful authenticity. (Show Less) 1. Thesaurus » Categories » a. A small Eurasian tree, Acer campestre (family Aceraceae), which has five-lobed palmate leaves and occurs commonly in hedgerows (more fully common maple, field maple, or hedge maple). Also (frequently with distinguishing word): any of the numerous trees and shrubs of the genus Acer, chiefly native to north temperate regions, with palmately lobed, entire, or occasionally pinnate leaves, and fruit in the form of a pair of winged samaras joined together, many of which are grown for shade or ornament, for timber, or for syrup. Cf. maple tree n. 1260 in M. T. Löfvenberg Stud. Middle Eng. Local Surnames (1942) 128 (MED) Gilb. atte Mapole. ?a1300 Gloss. Tree- & Bird-names in M. R. James Catal. MSS St. John's Coll., Cambr. (1913) 155 Arabel, Mapel. ▸ c1385 Chaucer Knight's Tale 2923 The names how the trees highte As..Mapul, thorn, beech, hasyl..shal nat been tolde for me. a1425 (▸?a1400) Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 1384 There were elmes grete..Maples, assh, ok. ▸ ?1440 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. 337 (MED) This mapil, ook, & asshe endureth longe In floryng. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxix^v Reed wethy is beste in marsshe grounde, asshe, maple, hasell, and whytethorne woll serue for a tyme. 1590 Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A4 The Maple seeldom inward sound. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1300 The great Maple, not rightly called the Sycomore tree..is a stranger in England. 1637 T. Morton New Eng. Canaan ii. ii. 65 Mayple,..very excellent, for bowles. 1728 R. Bradley Dict. Botanicum at Acer montanum This Maple diffreth little from the last [sc. the common maple], unless it be in the leaf. 1732 Gentleman's Mag. 2 673 The Maple blushing gratifies the Sight. 1856 J. G. Whittier Ranger v Silver birches, golden-hooded, Set with maples, crimson-blooded. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 8/1 The Maple (A. campestre) is a low hedge tree most conspicuous for the golden and purple tints of its foliage in autumn. 1912 S. Leacock Sunshine Sketches i. 9 The maples blaze in glory and die. 1957 M. Hadfield Brit. Trees 376 Common Maple. Acer campestre Linnaeus. Hedge maple, field maple. Usually a small tree..but also seen in hedge-rows as a pollard or, owing to repeated cutting, a shrub. 1997 ‘S. Shem’ Mount Misery i. 19 Before me, lining the roads and coalescing in peaceful woods, were oaks, maples, [etc.]. 1260—1997(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » b. Any of several trees of other families resembling the true maples or yielding timber similar to that of a maple. Usually with distinguishing word. Cf. maple n.²Queensland maple: see Queensland n. 1a. 1934 W. A. Osborne Visitor to Austral. 67 The Queensland maple, really allied to mahogany, gives a wood much in demand for panelling and furniture. 1955 New Settler in W. Austral. July 11 Queensland has the Queensland maple and walnut trees. 1965 Austral. Encycl. III. 137 The rose maple or rose walnut (C[ryptocarya] erythroxylon), found in the hill rain-forests of south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales. 1985 Age (Melbourne) 31 Oct. 11/3 We came to a giant maple, about 200 centimetres in diameter. 1934—1985(Hide quotations) 2. Thesaurus » Categories » a. The wood of any of these trees; (also) wood resembling that of a maple.bird's-eye, curled, mottled, Russian maple: see the first element. 1396–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 214 (MED) 9 sawsars de mapill. c1425 (▸c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 9638 (MED) Men brynge hem speres of gode maples. 1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. D4 Maple, and also Witch-hazle, wherof the inhabitants vse to make their bowes. 1663 A. Cowley Agric. in Ess. in Verse & Prose in Wks. (1710) II. 714 He seats him in a Throne of Maple. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva x. 28 The Maple..was of old held in equal estimation almost with the Citron; especially the Bruscum, the French-Maple, and the Peacocks-tail-Maple. 1742 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved (ed. 3) II. vi. 79 Maple..is approved of, by the Turner, for making Hollow-ware. a1807 Wordsworth Prelude (1959) i. 32 The naked table, snow-white deal, Cherry or maple. 1847 W. Darlington Agric. Bot. 27 The wood of the Red Maple—especially that variety or form of it, known as Curled Maple. 1853 Heal & Son Catal. 60/1 Wardrobes, japanned maple, or any colour for gentlemen's use. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 216 The Russian maple is thought to be the wood of a birch tree... The bird's eye maple is the American variety... The mottled maple is a commoner variety. 1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 611 Villaresia Moorei..‘Maple’..a most excellent wood, white in colour, and durable. 1926 Queensland Agric. Jrnl. 25 433 A timber resembling Queensland maple, which is not a Maple. 1958 Connecticut Hist. Soc. Apr. 52 Like the others [sc. chests] in Mr. Cummings' article, it is made of pine and maple. 1990 Classic CD July 38/3 The materials used are the same as for a violin..: spruce for the front of the soundbox, maple for the rest. 1396–7—1990(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » b. The light-brown colour of maple wood. 1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 297/2 Oil Varnish stains..in the following colours..Mahogany, Rosewood, Maple, Satinwood. 1967 Harper's Bazaar Mar. 8 (advt.) Sweater..in maple. 1926–7—1967(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » 3. In full maple pea. Any of various varieties of field pea, Pisum sativum var. arvense, with brown, speckled seeds; the seed of such a variety. 1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer 33 Here we sow the Maple-Pea, which is a large Pea of a Hazle Colour. 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming xxxii. 219 The Maple is a larger and sweeter Pea for the Hog. 1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 575/2 Partridge Pea.—This variety is also known under the names of gray maple, or Marlborough pea. The pods..contain from five to seven medium-sized seeds, which are..speckled like the neck of a partridge. 1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm viii. 105 The principal types of stock-feed peas are the Maples and the Duns, both being arvense forms with coloured flowers and pigmented seeds. The Maples have speckled seeds of varying shades of brown or yellow, the shape, size and colour varying considerably in different stocks. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 23 Feb. 4/2 For maples interest is mostly restricted to seed lots. 1981 K. Thear in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry ii. 59/1 Traditionally, pigeons were given a mixture of home-ground maize, maple peas, dari and wheat. 1998 A. Martin Bilton iii. 36 He was a dream from the ‘Downbeat’ point of view, going on about how commercialisation was wrecking the sport and doubling the price of maple peas. 1732—1998(Hide quotations) Compounds C1. a. General attributive. Thesaurus » Categories » maple block n. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. iii. sig. C2^v He has his Maple block, his siluer tongs. 1880 ‘E. Kirke’ Life J. A. Garfield 13 Bringing his saw and jackplane again into play, he fashioned companies..out of maple blocks. 1982 Habitat Catal. 1982–3 56/2 A real workhorse of a table, with maple block top. 1612—1982(Hide quotations) maple forest n. 1840 Knickerbocker 16 267 A small and beautiful lake [with]..a rich tract of maple forest on one side. 1910 R. Kipling Rewards & Fairies 146 Still autumn sets the maple-forest blazing. 1995 Minnesota Monthly Jan. 28/1 The rest [of the trails]..top out on rolling terrain, where you glide through a maple forest and past wilderness lakes. 1840—1995(Hide quotations) maple grove n. 1830 A. Kidd Haron Chief 113 Close by that maple grove, I see a flame ascend above. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 773/2 A maple grove..is..regarded as a valuable feature on a Canadian farm. 1944 Ecol. Monogr. 14 88 This is a country estate, a man-made forest-edge type of habitat, containing a maple grove with dense undergrowth, shrubs of many cultivated varieties,..and buildings. 1830—1944(Hide quotations) maple log n. 1831 Constellation (N.Y.) 16 July 275/3 The first steam boat ever regularly fitted [sc. Fitch's] was a Yankee ‘notion’; the cotton gin is a Yankee ‘notion’; the card making machine is a Yankee ‘notion’. So much for ‘wooden nutmegs’ and ‘maple-log’ pumpkins. 1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 357/1 During the engagement, the Indians sustained great injury from the bursting of a maple log, which they had bored like a cannon, and charged to fire upon the fort. 1974 L. Koenig Little Girl who lives down Lane i. 9 The sharp smoke-smell of burning maple logs. 1831—1974(Hide quotations) maple timber n. 1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 3 He had purchased fine farming land and maple timber. 1860 W. P. Strickland Old Mackinaw 256 There are..large tracts of beech and maple timber lying between the head of Grand Traverse Bay, and the Manistee and Muskeegon rivers. 1845—1860(Hide quotations) † maple warre n. [see warre n.] Obsolete 1579 Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Aug. 26 A mazer ywrought of the Maple Warre. 1579—1579(Hide quotations) maple wood n. 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 440 The Globe being of Maple-wood..was 5¹³/ ₁₆ inches in Diameter. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 327 By taking the rottenest Maple Wood and burning of it to Ashes. 1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 172 Maple wood is..much used for the lathe. 1859 E. G. Storke Domest. & Rural Affairs 208 Maple-wood forms a good fuel. 1990 Country Homes & Interiors Oct. 152/1 From a new range of free standing furniture..comes this maplewood chopping table. 1667—1990(Hide quotations) b. With the sense ‘made of maple wood’. (a) maple chair n. 1649 J. Ogilby tr. Virgil Æneis (1684) viii. 292 A Maple Chair, graced with a Lion's Skin. 1853 De Bow's Rev. Feb. 114/1 Maple chairs, [$]31 00. 1998 Church Times 6 Feb. 28/2 Among the most important pieces exhibited is a maple chair with brass ‘tilters’. 1649—1998(Hide quotations) Categories » † maple cup n. Obsolete rare 1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 7 The service of presenting the king with three Maple-Cups on the day of his Coronation. 1679—1679(Hide quotations) (b) maple-timbered adj. 1849 Executive Documents U.S. House of Representatives (31st Congress, 1st Sess.) No. 5. 631 At 7½ a.m., went over good maple-timbered land to corner. 1849—1849(Hide quotations) c. Thesaurus » Categories » maple beer n. North American an alcoholic drink made from maple sap. 1788 Amer. Museum 4 350/1 Maple beer.—To every 4 gallons of water (while boiling) add a quart of maple melasses. 1857 ‘Porte Crayon’ Virginia Illustr. i. 23 The table was spread with the best in the house—cold bread and meat..maple beer. 1973 L. Russell Everyday Life Colonial Canada viii. 103 Spruce beer, made from the tender twigs of that tree, and maple beer, from the late, weak sap fermented with hops. 1788—1973(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » † maple biscuit n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a biscuit or sweetmeat made with maple sugar. a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) II. iii. 45 A Flask of Pontack,..with Cakes, Maple Biscuits, and other Sweetmeats [at Allost, in Flanders]. a1753—a1753(Hide quotations) maple-borer n. any of several insects whose larvae bore into the wood of maples; cf. sugar-maple borer n. at sugar maple n. Compounds. [1881 Bull. U.S. Entomol. Comm. 7 103 The sugar-maple borer. Glycobius speciosus.] 1890 Cent. Dict. Maple-borer, one of the different insects which bore the wood of maples. 1931 Ecology 12 194 The maple borer, Plagionotus speciasus..although characteristic of the climax maple, has not been taken by me in the Chicago area. 1890—1931(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » maple bush n. (a) a shrubby maple tree; esp. the mountain maple, Acer spicatum; (b) North American an orchard or grove of sugar maples. 1821 H. R. Schoolcraft Narr. Jrnl. Trav. Northwestern U.S. 162 The small red twigs of the..maple bush. 1840 A. Eaton & J. W. Wright N. Amer. Bot. (ed. 8) 112 Acer spicatum, (mountain maple bush). 1844 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 1 264 Mr. Jones also had a maple bush, or a small wood containing sugar maple trees. 1881 Harper's Mag. Apr. 646 Many farmers would no more part with their maple bush or orchard than with any precious heirloom. 1954 J. L. Beattie Along Road 2 Guarding it was our neighbour's maple bush. 1993 Ottawa Citizen 28 Mar. b8 The show profiles Andrew Gemmill..who has been tapping his maple bush for 67 years, just as his father did before him. 1821—1993(Hide quotations) Categories » maple butter n. North American (a) = maple cream at Compounds 2; (b) a spread made by blending butter with maple sugar or maple syrup. 1923 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1366. 31 This product [sc. maple cream], called maple butter in some sections, is frequently prepared by farmers. 1958 Catal. County Stores, Taunton June 27 Maple Butter—a jar 6/–. 1989 Toronto Star 22 Feb. b8 The kind of maple butter that I make never gets very fluffy no matter how hard I beat. 1995 Gazette (Montreal) 3 June (Travel section) 15 The homemade bread is baked and sold hot on the spot, usually thick-sliced and smothered with sweet, gooey maple butter. 1923—1995(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » maple candy n. North American maple sugar; a sweet made from this. 1840 N.-Y. Mirror 4 Apr. 37/2 Your great dealers in Newtown pippins and maple candy tell you..that they can't afford their accommodations. 1879 Morning Chron. (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 2 July 1/8 The average boy and a good sized lump of maple candy, form the materials from which we might deduct self-evident conclusion regarding the facility with which attachments are formed in early life. 1975 Times 22 Apr. 6 The Prince of Wales samples maple candy while visiting a sugar camp near Ottawa. 1840—1975(Hide quotations) Categories » maple cream n. North American a spread made by heating maple syrup, then rapidly cooling it while stirring until it acquires a creamy consistency. 1907 L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Agric. II. 434 Perhaps one-tenth of the crop [of maple syrup] is made into ‘maple cream,’ a delicious, almost white, soft, creamy candy. 1923 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1366. 31 Maple cream is produced by boiling the sirup to a density slightly heavier than that for soft sugar and suddenly cooling the product, stirring all the time with a large spoon. 1970 S. Trueman Intimate Hist. New Brunswick iii. 57 Come home with thoughts of periwinkles, dulse, maple cream, samphire greens, [etc.]. 1992 Nova Scotia Trav. Guide 87/1 Today's superior maple cream product is the result of careful experiments and processes extending back more than a century. 1907—1992(Hide quotations) Categories » maple disease n. now rare a fungal leaf spot disease affecting certain maples. 1890 Cent. Dict. Maple-disease, a disease of the white or silver maple, the red maple, and the striped maple, caused by a fungus, Phyllosticta acuicola, which attacks their leaves. 1890—1890(Hide quotations) Categories » maple dish n. a dish made of maple (in quots., used as a begging bowl). 1637 Milton Comus 14 Who would rob an Hermit of his weeds His few books, or his beades, or maple dish? 1781 W. Cowper Truth 80 Books, beads, and maple dish, his meagre stock. 1822 Wordsworth Eccl. Sonnets i. xxii A beechen bowl, A maple dish, my furniture should be. 1637—1822(Hide quotations) Categories » maple eye n. rare (in graining) an eye-shaped mark similar to those found in maple wood. 1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 424/2 Put in the maple eyes by hand. 1873—1873(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » † maple face n. Obsolete a spotted face. 1593 T. Churchyard Challenge 114 With swashing Tom, and goodman Maple face. a1637 B. Jonson Tale of Tub ii. ii. 15 in Wks. (1640) III What? Rowle-powle? Maple-face? All fellowes? 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 159 Ere long these adulterate Colours will moulder, and then the old maple-Face appeares. 1593—1650(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » † maple-faced adj. Obsolete having a spotty face. 1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. G3^v You vnlucky maple-fac'd rascall. 1608—1608(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » † maple grey n. Obsolete rare a kind of grey field pea. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 583 The Marlborough gray, the horn gray, the maple gray. 1805—1805(Hide quotations) Categories » maple honey n. U.S. maple syrup, esp. when evaporated until it begins to crystallize. 1850 Bentley's Misc. 27 159 The uncrystalizable sugar which remains is called ‘maple honey’. 1941 H. Kurath et al. Ling. Atlas New Eng. Map 307 Maple honey, the older term for maple syrup. 1953 J. van Wagenen Golden Age of Homespun xvi. 174 Syrup cooked down to the point where it cools to sugar..when stirred with a spoon..will become ‘maple honey’, which even now remains the most delicious of confections. 1850—1953(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » maple key n. [ < maple n.¹ + key n.¹ 13] the fruit of a maple. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 76 in Sylva Ashen, Sycomor and Maple keys. 1953 Ecol. Monogr. 24 238/2 It was noted that an individual [squirrel] feeding on..maple keys..would bite open only those which contained a fully developed embryo. 1976 New Yorker 12 Jan. 66/2 The best-known samara is the maple key, which is much larger than the fruit of the birch. 1992 Harrowsmith Aug. 70/2 Assorted maple keys—the dry winged fruit of the tree—provide a valuable avian food supply from June right through the winter. 1664—1992(Hide quotations) maple-knob n. a variety of timber obtained from an excrescence on a maple. 1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 1316/1 In addition to the above-named varieties [sc. curled and bird's-eye maples], two other kinds occur in the wens, or excrescences, which grow on the trunk or roots of this tree... The most valuable variety is known by the name of Variegated Maple-knob. 1858—1858(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » maple molasses n. North American = maple syrup n. 1788 Amer. Museum 4 350/1 Maple melasses..may be made in three ways. 1801 T. G. Fessenden in Port Folio (Philadelphia) 15 Aug. 264/3 The lips of my charmer are sweet, As a hogshead of maple molasses. 1897 C. Durand Reminisc. 83 We made our household sugar, and luscious maple molasses, not mixed as it is now too often with water and common Muscovado sugar. 1933 ‘P. Slater’ Yellow Briar (1934) iv. 67 There was aye an abundance there for supper that night—of cold pork, hot pigeon pie,..hot shortcake and maple molasses. 1982 Greenfield (Mass.) Recorder 20 Mar. a4/2 Grandma used to speak of ‘maple molasses’ referring I think to the rather dark, thick, syrup. 1788—1982(Hide quotations) maple pea n. see sense 3. Thesaurus » Categories » † maple rouncival pea n. Obsolete a variety of rouncival pea (see rouncival n. 1.), perhaps one with speckled seeds; also maple rouncival. 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 3) (at cited word) Pisum, Maple Rouncival Pea. 1762 J. Mills New Syst. Pract. Husbandry I. 466 The green and the maple rouncivals require a stronger soil than the white. 1731—1762(Hide quotations) Categories » maple sap n. North American the sap of a maple, esp. that from which maple syrup is made. [1705 J. Harris Navigantium II. 929 The Maple Trees..yields a Sap... Of this Sap they make Sugar and Syrup.] 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 265 In some of the new towns a liquor is made of spruce twigs, boiled in maple sap. 1839 R. W. Emerson To Humble-bee in Western Messenger 6 Feb. 240 Aught unsavory or unclean Hath my insect never seen, But violets, and bilberry bells, Maple sap, and daffodels. 1905 W. F. Fox Maple Sugar Industry 36 Maple sap is a nearly colorless liquid composed of water; sugar, and various mineral substances. 1993 Canad. Geographic Mar. 16/1 This time-honoured tradition of Canadian spring—sugaring off—originated with native North Americans, who were the first to collect maple sap to produce sugar. 1792—1993(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » maple sugar n. North American the sugar obtained by evaporation from the sap of certain maples, esp. the sugar maple. 1722 Philos. Trans. 1720–21 (Royal Soc.) 31 27 Maple Sugar is made of the Juice of Upland Maple, or Maple Trees that grow upon the Highlands. 1784 J. Belknap Belknap Papers (1877) II. 181 A sauce composed of raspberries, cream, and maple sugar. 1880 6th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1879–80 113 There seems to be a prevailing error..that clean white maple sugar is adulterated. 1931 W. Cather Shadows on Rock v. i. 204 The country people had been coming..bringing maple sugar, spruce beer. 1974 Country Life 3–10 Jan. 28/3 Maple sugar was..often the only source of sugar available to pioneers in the backwoods. 1992 M. Ondaatje Eng. Patient x. 291 Wrapped up in..small piece of cloth was the metal spile she had given him, which was used for tapping maple sugar out of a tree in her country. 1722—1992(Hide quotations) Categories » maple sugaring n. North American the process of gathering maple sap to make into maple sugar. 1941 M. Follett Drop in Bucket i. 10 Maple sugaring comes at the time of year when the northern farmer has comparatively little else to do. 1953 Amer. Hist. Rev. 59 227 Some of the topics covered include the clearing of land and log cabin construction,..maple sugaring,..coopering, and several domestic crafts. 1993 Equinox (Ont.) Dec. 23/2 (advt.) It's not too early to plan next March's maple sugaring. 1941—1993(Hide quotations) Categories » maple sugar urine disease n. Medicine rare = maple syrup urine disease n. 1957 A.M.A. Jrnl. Dis. Children 94 571/2 (heading) Maple sugar urine disease. 1957—1957(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » maple-sugary n. North American (now rare) (a) a grove of sugar maples; (b) a factory where maple sap is processed into syrup and sugar. [1780 Quebec Gaz. 27 Jan. 3/1 There is on it an excellent Maple Sucrerie.] 1850 Househ. Words 14 Dec. 282/1 You have surprised the workers of a maple-sugary. 1890 E. Gosse Life P. H. Gosse 95 A log-hut..a young maple-sugary, and four tons of hay. 1850—1890(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » maple swamp n. a swamp in which maple is the predominant tree. 1667 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1894) V. 317 Standing on the west Side of a Maple Swampe. 1789 J. Morse Amer. Geogr. 143 One species generally predominating in each soil has originated the descriptive names of..maple, ash and cedar swamps. 1855 Knickerbocker 46 225 Cutting hoop-poles in the maple swamps. 1935 Ecol. Monogr. 5 79 Most of the swamps in southern New England are characterized by the presence of red maple. While there were undoubtedly many maple swamps originally, it is probable that most of those at the present time represent a secondary condition. [1989 Nature Conservancy May 33/1 This red maple swamp grades into a shallow pond.] 1667—1935(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » maple syrup n. a syrup obtained by evaporating maple sap or dissolving maple sugar. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 265 In some of the new towns a liquor is made of spruce twigs, boiled in maple syrup. 1849 in Glimpses of Past (Missouri Hist. Soc.) (1933) I. 5 At the different houses they received sugar, coffee, lard, candles, flour, maple syrup, [etc.]. 1885 Outing 7 77/1 A moment later, all smoking and puffy and swimming in maple sirup, it disappears. 1905 E. E. Calkins & R. Holden Art Mod. Advertising 113 Maple-sirup is a product to which justice has never been done. 1967 Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 11 June (1970) 527 We went in to breakfast.., including blueberry pancakes, and, naturally, Vermont maple syrup. 1995 Midwest Living Apr. 74/2 Fill up on stacks of pancakes drenched in fresh maple syrup. 1792—1995(Hide quotations) Thesaurus » Categories » maple syrup disease n. Medicine = maple syrup urine disease n. 1959 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Jan. 92/2 A disease which may be related to ‘maple syrup disease’. 1968 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. I. xi. 23/1 Maple syrup disease, so rare as to be a clinical curiosity, is an inborn error of metabolism. 1993 Discover Oct. 14/3 Maple Syrup Disease (MSUD) is a genetic disorder in which certain types of amino acids are not properly metabolized. 1959—1993(Hide quotations) Categories » maple-syruping n. North American the harvesting of maple syrup. 1975 Budget (Sugarcreek, Ohio) 20 Mar. 3/8 March 17—Very damp on the outside again. Ideal weather for maple syruping. 1975—1975(Hide quotations) Categories » maple syrup urine disease n. Medicine a metabolic disorder leading in its most severe form to psychomotor retardation and early death, in which the urine has a characteristic odour of maple syrup due to the presence of the amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and valine, and some of their metabolites. [1954 J. H. Menkes et al. in Pediatrics 14 462 (heading) A new syndrome: progressive familial infantile cerebral dysfunction associated with an unusual urinary substance... A characteristic feature of their illness was the passage of urine with an odor strikingly similar to that of maple syrup.] 1959 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Jan. 90/1 (heading) ‘Maple syrup urine disease.’ An inborn error of the metabolism of valine, leucine, and isoleucine associated with gross mental deficiency. 1977 Ann. Internal Med. 86 514/2 Advances in genetic knowledge..have led to screening methods and programs for newborns for an increasing number of treatable inherited diseases (for example, phenylketonuria, galactosemia, maple syrup urine disease). 1997 Time (Special Issue) Fall 31/2 Recognizing that the Old Order Amish and Mennonites (who suffer from a similar genetic disorder called maple syrup urine disease) could not reach major medical centers if their children became ill. 1959—1997(Hide quotations) Categories » maple wax n. North American maple syrup that has been boiled down and then cooled rapidly by pouring on to snow; also called jack wax. 1883 G. O. Shields Hunting Great West 257 Oh, what a delicious bon bon is a dish of warm maple wax, pure and fresh from the woods! 1939 I. B. Wolcott Yankee Cook Bk. 346 Pour the syrup on the snow, a little at a time... Some people call the syrup ‘sheepskins’; others refer to it as ‘leather aprons’ or ‘maple wax.’ 1947 Amer. Speech 22 152/2 Maple wax, sirup boiled to a density equal to that of hard sugar, but without stirring, and then poured over snow or ice to secure immediate cooling. 1883—1947(Hide quotations) Categories » maple worm n. U.S. the larva of a North American moth, Dryocampa rubicunda (family Saturniidae), which feeds on the foliage of maple and oak; the moth itself. 1873 Winfield (Kansas) Courier 24 July 1/5 I find the maple worm is a peculiarly Kansas institution. 1932 E. P. Felt & W. H. Rankin Insects & Dis. Ornamental Trees & Shrubs 301 The green-striped maple worm (Anisota rubicunda)..appears to be a more serious pest in the western states. 1993 R. H. Arnett Amer. Insects 587/2 D. rubicunda rubicunda..(Green-striped Mapleworm; Rosy Maple Moth). 1873—1993(Hide quotations) C2. attributive. Designating food made with maple syrup or maple syrup flavouring, as maple buttercream, maple cream, maple fondant, maple loaf, etc. See also maple biscuit n., maple butter n. at Compounds 1c. 1942 Amer. Cook Bk. (rev. ed.) 766 Maple, coffee and chocolate fondants may also be made into patties. 1951 T. Sterling Home without Door ii. 12 Name your poison, lady. Chocolate, vanilla, pistachio, maple cream. 1973 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Apr. 8/5 The season is over, so Mr. Dion is down at the St. Roch market every day selling the syrup, taffy and maple loaves from a table at the back of the same truck he drives to the city every day. 1989 Bon Appétit Sept. 76/1 It's spread with a rich maple buttercream and garnished with candied pecans. 1994 Minnesota Monthly May 66/3 Seasonal preparations of fresh walleye, roasted duckling, Minnesota Brie apple soup, maple frango with blueberry sauce and buckwheat wafers. 1942—1994(Hide quotations) ► indicates date of composition for this text (as opposed to date of documentary evidence). 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b. Any of several trees of other families resembling the true maples or yielding timber similar to that of a maple. Usually with distinguishing word. Cf. maple n.2Queensland maple: see Queensland n. 1a.

a. The wood of any of these trees; (also) wood resembling that of a maple.bird's-eye, curled, mottled, Russian maple: see the first element.

b. The light-brown colour of maple wood.

3. In full maple pea. Any of various varieties of field pea, Pisum sativum var. arvense, with brown, speckled seeds; the seed of such a variety.

Compounds

maple block n.

maple forest n.

maple grove n.

maple log n.

maple timber n.

† maple warre n. [see warre n.] Obsolete

maple wood n.

maple chair n.

† maple cup n. Obsolete rare

maple-timbered adj.

maple beer n. North American an alcoholic drink made from maple sap.

† maple biscuit n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a biscuit or sweetmeat made with maple sugar.

maple-borer n. any of several insects whose larvae bore into the wood of maples; cf. sugar-maple borer n. at sugar maple n. Compounds.

maple bush n. (a) a shrubby maple tree; esp. the mountain maple, Acer spicatum; (b) North American an orchard or grove of sugar maples.

maple butter n. North American (a) = maple cream at Compounds 2; (b) a spread made by blending butter with maple sugar or maple syrup.

maple candy n. North American maple sugar; a sweet made from this.

maple cream n. North American a spread made by heating maple syrup, then rapidly cooling it while stirring until it acquires a creamy consistency.

maple disease n. now rare a fungal leaf spot disease affecting certain maples.

maple dish n. a dish made of maple (in quots., used as a begging bowl).

maple eye n. rare (in graining) an eye-shaped mark similar to those found in maple wood.

† maple face n. Obsolete a spotted face.

† maple-faced adj. Obsolete having a spotty face.

† maple grey n. Obsolete rare a kind of grey field pea.

maple honey n. U.S. maple syrup, esp. when evaporated until it begins to crystallize.

maple key n. [ < maple n.1 + key n.1 13] the fruit of a maple.

maple-knob n. a variety of timber obtained from an excrescence on a maple.

maple molasses n. North American = maple syrup n.

maple pea n. see sense 3.

† maple rouncival pea n. Obsolete a variety of rouncival pea (see rouncival n. 1.), perhaps one with speckled seeds; also maple rouncival.

maple sap n. North American the sap of a maple, esp. that from which maple syrup is made.

maple sugar n. North American the sugar obtained by evaporation from the sap of certain maples, esp. the sugar maple.

maple sugaring n. North American the process of gathering maple sap to make into maple sugar.

maple sugar urine disease n. Medicine rare = maple syrup urine disease n.

maple-sugary n. North American (now rare) (a) a grove of sugar maples; (b) a factory where maple sap is processed into syrup and sugar.

maple swamp n. a swamp in which maple is the predominant tree.

maple syrup n. a syrup obtained by evaporating maple sap or dissolving maple sugar.

maple syrup disease n. Medicine = maple syrup urine disease n.

maple-syruping n. North American the harvesting of maple syrup.

maple syrup urine disease n. Medicine a metabolic disorder leading in its most severe form to psychomotor retardation and early death, in which the urine has a characteristic odour of maple syrup due to the presence of the amino acids leucine, isoleucine, and valine, and some of their metabolites.

maple wax n. North American maple syrup that has been boiled down and then cooled rapidly by pouring on to snow; also called jack wax.

maple worm n. U.S. the larva of a North American moth, Dryocampa rubicunda (family Saturniidae), which feeds on the foliage of maple and oak; the moth itself.

C2. attributive. Designating food made with maple syrup or maple syrup flavouring, as maple buttercream, maple cream, maple fondant, maple loaf, etc. See also maple biscuit n., maple butter n. at Compounds 1c.

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maple, n.¹

b. Any of several trees of other families resembling the true maples or yielding timber similar to that of a maple. Usually with distinguishing word. Cf. maple n.²Queensland maple: see Queensland n. 1a.

† maple warre n.
[see warre n.]
Obsolete

maple bush n.
(a) a shrubby maple tree; esp. the mountain maple, Acer spicatum;
(b) North American an orchard or grove of sugar maples.

maple butter n. North American
(a) = maple cream at Compounds 2;
(b) a spread made by blending butter with maple sugar or maple syrup.

maple key n.
[ < maple n.¹ + key n.¹ 13]
the fruit of a maple.

maple-sugary n. North American (now rare)
(a) a grove of sugar maples;
(b) a factory where maple sap is processed into syrup and sugar.