maplen.1
/ˈmeɪpl/, U.S. /ˈmeɪpəl/ 1.
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.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun]
maple treeOE
maplec1385
plane tree1562
great maple1597
sycamore-tree1597
sycamore1598
sugar-tree1705
sugar maple1731
red maple1767
scarlet maple1768
rock maple1774
white maple1774
silk wood1775
moosewood1778
mountain maple1785
box elder1787
acer1793
sycamore maple1796
mock plane1797
Montpellier maple1797
water maple1803
soft maple1806
sugar-wood1809
swamp maple1810
low maple1813
maple bush1821
Neapolitan maple1833
snake-bark1838
moose-maple1839
sap-tree1843
Manitoba maple1887
Japanese maple1898
curly maple1909
Queensland maple1915
paperbark maple1927
Amur maple1934
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 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 2923 The names how the trees highte As..Mapul, thorn, beech, hasyl..shal nat been tolde for me.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 1384 There were elmes grete..Maples, assh, ok.
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. xxxixv Reed wethy is beste in marsshe grounde, asshe, maple, hasell, and whytethorne woll serue for a tyme.
1590 E. 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.].
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.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > names applied to various Australasian species
pepper tree1773
apple tree1801
white boxc1830
Christmas tree1844
mapau1853
maple1858
leopard-wood1859
red ash1863
sycamore1866
New Zealand orange tree1898
five-finger1926
leopard-tree1927
maple1934
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.
2.
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.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > maple
maple1396
acer1977
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 W. 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.
b. The light-brown colour of maple wood.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > other browns
umberc1568
Spanish brown1660
earth colour1688
raw umber1702
iron brown1714
clove-brown1794
raw sienna1797
wood-brown1805
moorit1809
coffee1815
oak1815
burnt almond1850
Vandyke brown1850
Turk's head1853
catechu brown1860
oak brown1860
mummy brown1861
walnut-brown1865
Havana1873
havana brown1875
wax-brown1887
box1889
nutria1897
caramel1909
wallflower brown1913
cigar1923
desert-brown1923
sunburn1923
tobacco1923
maple1926
butterscotch1927
walnut1934
snuff1951
mink1955
toffee1960
sludge1962
earth-tone1973
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.
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.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant
rouncival1570
garden pea1573
field pease1597
vale-grey1615
rose pea1629
hotspur1663
seven-year pea1672
rathe-ripe1677
huff-codc1680
pigeon pea1683
hog-pease1686
shrub pea1691
field pea1707
pea1707
crown pea1726
maple rouncival1731
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
pig pea1731
sickle-pea1731
hog pea1732
maple pea1732
marrow pea1733
black eye?1740
egg-pea1744
magotty bay bean1789
Prussian1804
maple grey1805
partridge pea1812
Prussian blue1822
scimitar1834
marrow1855
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
mattar1908
vining pea1959
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > pea > other peas
garden pea1573
rathe-ripe1677
pigeon pea1683
sugar pea1707
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
maple pea1732
egg-pea1744
petits pois1820
pea1866
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
vining pea1959
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.
Compounds
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a. General attributive.† maple warre n. [see warre n.] Obsolete
maple block n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > [noun] > block for cutting tobacco
maple block1612
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist i. iii. sig. C2v He has his Maple block, his siluer tongs. View more context for this quotation
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.
maple forest n.
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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.
maple grove n.
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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.
maple log n.
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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.
maple timber n.
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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.
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1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Aug. 26 A mazer ywrought of the Maple Warre.
maple wood n.
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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.
b. With the sense ‘made of maple wood’.
(a) † maple cup n. Obsolete rare
maple chair n.
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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’.
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1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 7 The service of presenting the king with three Maple-Cups on the day of his Coronation.
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maple-timbered adj.
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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.
c. † maple biscuit n. Obsolete rare (perhaps) a biscuit or sweetmeat made with maple sugar.† 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 rouncival pea n. Obsolete a variety of rouncival pea (see rouncival n. 1.), perhaps one with speckled seeds; also maple rouncival.
maple beer n. North American an alcoholic drink made from maple sap.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > non-malted brews > [noun] > others
kvassa1556
locus ale1693
honey beer1731
maple beer1788
heath-ale1801
treacle beer1806
root beer1815
treacle alea1833
gale-beer1863
nettle beer1864
shimiyana1870
birch beer1883
parsnip beer1897
skokiaan1926
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.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > other biscuits
dorcake14..
cracknelc1440
hard breada1500
crackling1598
Naples biscuit1650
gingerbread man1686
chocolate biscuit1702
biscotin1723
sponge biscuit1736
maple biscuita1753
butter biscuit1758
nut1775
Oliver biscuit1786
funeral biscuit1790
rock biscuit?1790
ratafia1801
finger biscuit1812
Savoy drop1816
lady's finger1818
snap1819
Abernethy1830
pretzel1831
wine-biscuit1834
gingersnap1838
captain's biscuit1843
lebkuchen1847
simnel1854
sugar cookie1854
peppernut1862
McClellan pie1863
Savoy ring1866
Brown George1867
beaten biscuit1876
digestive1876
Osborne1876
Bath Oliver1878
marie1878
boer biscuit1882
charcoal biscuit1885
biscotti1886
fairing1888
snickerdoodle1889
pfeffernuss1891
zwieback1894
Nice1895
Garibaldi biscuit1896
Oswegoc1900
squashed fly1900
amaretto1905
boerebeskuit1905
Romary1905
petit beurre1906
Oswego biscuit1907
soetkoekie1910
Oreo1912
custard cream1916
Anzac1923
sweet biscuit1929
langue de chat1931
Bourbon biscuit1932
Afghan1934
flapjack1935
Florentine1936
chocolate chip cookie1938
choc chip cookie1940
Toll House cookie1940
tuile1943
pizzelle1949
black and white1967
Romany Cream1970
papri1978
a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) II. iii. 45 A Flask of Pontack,..with Cakes, Maple Biscuits, and other Sweetmeats [at Allost, in Flanders].
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.
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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.
maple bush n. (a) a shrubby maple tree; esp. the mountain maple, Acer spicatum; (b) North American an orchard or grove of sugar maples.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun]
maple treeOE
maplec1385
plane tree1562
great maple1597
sycamore-tree1597
sycamore1598
sugar-tree1705
sugar maple1731
red maple1767
scarlet maple1768
rock maple1774
white maple1774
silk wood1775
moosewood1778
mountain maple1785
box elder1787
acer1793
sycamore maple1796
mock plane1797
Montpellier maple1797
water maple1803
soft maple1806
sugar-wood1809
swamp maple1810
low maple1813
maple bush1821
Neapolitan maple1833
snake-bark1838
moose-maple1839
sap-tree1843
Manitoba maple1887
Japanese maple1898
curly maple1909
Queensland maple1915
paperbark maple1927
Amur maple1934
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.
maple butter n. North American (a) = maple cream at Compounds 2; (b) a spread made by blending butter with maple sugar or maple syrup.
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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.
maple candy n. North American maple sugar; a sweet made from this.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > other sweets
scrochat1448
gobbet riala1500
Portugal1560
sugar-pellet1591
muscadine1599
moscardino1616
rock candy1653
covering-seeds1687
lollipop1784
turn-over1798
lavender-sugar1810
humbug1825
kiss1825
elecampane1826
Gibraltar1831
yellow man1831
rose cake1834
cockle1835
maple candy1840
butterscotch1847
sponge candy1850
squib1851
honeycomb1857
marshmallow1857
motto kiss1858
fondant1861
coffee cream1868
candy-braid1870
candy bar1885
suckabob1888
nut bar1896
crackerjack1902
teiglach1903
red-hot1910
violet cream1912
mouldy1916
patty1916
lace1919
Tootsie Roll1925
sugar mouse1931
Parma1971
cinder toffee1979
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.
maple cream n. North American a spread made by heating maple syrup, then rapidly cooling it while stirring until it acquires a creamy consistency.
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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.
maple disease n. now rare a fungal leaf spot disease affecting certain maples.
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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.
maple dish n. a dish made of maple (in quots., used as a begging bowl).
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar's bowl
maple dish1637
begging-bowl1895
the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > other types of dish
spice-plate1391
pie plate1573
maple dish1637
cheese platea1665
supper dish1664
copperplate1665
reaming dish1712
paper plate1723
pickle leaf1762
pap-boat1782
supper1787
vegetable dish1799
well-dish1814
ice plate1820
pudding plate1838
tea plate1862
picnic plate1885
strawberry dish1941
1637 J. 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 W. Wordsworth Eccl. Sonnets i. xxii A beechen bowl, A maple dish, my furniture should be.
maple eye n. rare (in graining) an eye-shaped mark similar to those found in maple wood.
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1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 424/2 Put in the maple eyes by hand.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark > spotted face
maple face1593
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? View more context for this quotation
1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 159 Ere long these adulterate Colours will moulder, and then the old maple-Face appeares.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > spot or mark
maple-faced1608
flesh-marked1682
macular1686
punctiform1839
motley1843
petechiate1890
liver-spotted1955
1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. G3v You vnlucky maple-fac'd rascall.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant
rouncival1570
garden pea1573
field pease1597
vale-grey1615
rose pea1629
hotspur1663
seven-year pea1672
rathe-ripe1677
huff-codc1680
pigeon pea1683
hog-pease1686
shrub pea1691
field pea1707
pea1707
crown pea1726
maple rouncival1731
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
pig pea1731
sickle-pea1731
hog pea1732
maple pea1732
marrow pea1733
black eye?1740
egg-pea1744
magotty bay bean1789
Prussian1804
maple grey1805
partridge pea1812
Prussian blue1822
scimitar1834
marrow1855
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
mattar1908
vining pea1959
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 583 The Marlborough gray, the horn gray, the maple gray.
maple honey n. U.S. maple syrup, esp. when evaporated until it begins to crystallize.
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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.
maple key n. [ < maple n.1 + key n.1 13] the fruit of a maple.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > maples > [noun] > fruit of
maple key1664
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.
maple-knob n. a variety of timber obtained from an excrescence on a maple.
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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.
maple molasses n. North American = maple syrup n.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > maple syrup
maple molasses1788
maple syrup1792
wax1845
1788 Amer. Museum 4 350/1 Maple melasses..may be made in three ways.
1801 T. G. Fessenden in Port Folio 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.
maple pea n. see sense 3.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > pea > other types of pea or pea-plant
rouncival1570
garden pea1573
field pease1597
vale-grey1615
rose pea1629
hotspur1663
seven-year pea1672
rathe-ripe1677
huff-codc1680
pigeon pea1683
hog-pease1686
shrub pea1691
field pea1707
pea1707
crown pea1726
maple rouncival1731
marrowfat1731
moratto1731
pig pea1731
sickle-pea1731
hog pea1732
maple pea1732
marrow pea1733
black eye?1740
egg-pea1744
magotty bay bean1789
Prussian1804
maple grey1805
partridge pea1812
Prussian blue1822
scimitar1834
marrow1855
fill-basket1881
string-pea1891
mattar1908
vining pea1959
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.
maple sap n. North American the sap of a maple, esp. that from which maple syrup is made.
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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.
maple sugar n. North American the sugar obtained by evaporation from the sap of certain maples, esp. the sugar maple.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] > sugar > maple sugar
maple sugar1722
sap sugar1800
short sweetening1850
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.
maple sugaring n. North American the process of gathering maple sap to make into maple sugar.
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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.
maple sugar urine disease n. Medicine rare = maple syrup urine disease n.
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1957 A.M.A. Jrnl. Dis. Children 94 571/2 (heading) Maple sugar urine disease.
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.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > sugar manufacture > [noun] > sugar mill > maple-sugar mill, factory, or works
maple-sugary1850
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.
maple swamp n. a swamp in which maple is the predominant tree.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] > with trees
carrc1440
pine swamp1635
cedar-swamp1637
maple swamp1667
bay-swamp1741
bay-gall1775
bay1795
taiga1888
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.]
maple syrup n. a syrup obtained by evaporating maple sap or dissolving maple sugar.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > syrup > [noun] > maple syrup
maple molasses1788
maple syrup1792
wax1845
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.
maple syrup disease n. Medicine = maple syrup urine disease n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > urinary disorders > [noun] > other substances in urine
pyuria1772
albuminuria1838
azoturia1838
oxaluria1844
hippuria1847
mellituria1848
cystinuria1853
phosphuria1854
phosphoruria1858
chyluria1860
glycosuria1860
bacilluria1881
acetonuria1883
urobilinuria1887
alkaptonuria1888
bacteriuria1889
melanuria1890
peptonuria1890
xanthinuria1890
indicanuria1897
postural albuminuria1897
acholuria1900
pentosuria1902
proteinuria1911
ketonuria1913
porphyrinuria1916
hypercalcuria1930
porphobilinogenuria1949
natriuresis1957
maple syrup disease1959
saluresis1959
homocystinuria1962
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.
maple-syruping n. North American the harvesting of maple syrup.
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1975 Budget (Sugarcreek, Ohio) 20 Mar. 3/8 March 17—Very damp on the outside again. Ideal weather for maple syruping.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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).
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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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.
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maplen.2
/ˈmeɪpl/, U.S. /ˈmeɪp(ə)l/, New Zealand English /ˈmæepl/ New Zealand. Now rare.
= mapau n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > names applied to various Australasian species
pepper tree1773
apple tree1801
white boxc1830
Christmas tree1844
mapau1853
maple1858
leopard-wood1859
red ash1863
sycamore1866
New Zealand orange tree1898
five-finger1926
leopard-tree1927
maple1934
1858 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 1 May 3 For Sale, A Quantity of Scantling, pit sawn. 250 Round Maple Posts and Rails.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 287 Maple, in New Zealand, a common settlers' corruption for any tree called Mapau.
c1920 J. H. Beattie Trad. Lifeways Southern Maori (1994) 191 Rau tawhiri [black mapau, P. tenuifolium] = black maple of the settlers. Tarata [P. eugenioides] = white maple of the settlers.
1967 R. L. McLatchie Tang of Bush (ed. 2) 34 The Maples—red, white and black—were there, and ribbonwood or lace bark.
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