"Maple" is a word in ENGLISH
A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A.
saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which
sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by
evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A.
dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A.
Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A.
campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway
maple is A. platanoides.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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Following some duty overseas, the officers at the Fort were planning a welcome home party and dance for the unit. Being an all male combat force, they decided to request coeds from some of the surrounding colleges to attend. The Captain called Vassar and was assured by the Dean that arrangements could be made to send over a dozen of their most trustworthy students. The Captain hesitated, then said, "Would it also be possible to send a dozen or so of the other kind?"
Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid.
Read the complete definitionMarked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.
Read the complete definitionSee under Maple.
Read the complete definitionHaving branches in pairs, decussated, all nearly horizontal, and each pair at right angles with the next, as in the …
Read the complete definitionAny oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).
Read the complete definitionHaving curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinuous course).
Read the complete definitionA maple tree. Not to be confounded with ara bills, (arable land
Read the complete definitionAn indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called …
Read the complete definitionA large drinking bowl; -- originally made of maple.
Read the complete definitionThe thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, …
Read the complete definitionThe striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).
Read the complete definitionAn inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or …
Read the complete definitionHaving the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those …
Read the complete definitionThat which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run …
Read the complete definitionA dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs (Sapindaceae), including the (typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the margosa, …
Read the complete definitionA small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
Read the complete definitionA common variety of sugar found in the juices of many plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, sugar maple, beet …
Read the complete definitionA sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice …
Read the complete definitionIn making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; …
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