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Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate
systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or
map out, a journey; to map out business.

I am near to the place where they should meet, if
Pisanio have mapped it truly.

Shak.

||Ma*pach" (?), n. [Mexican.] The
raccoon.

Ma"ple (?), n. [AS. mapolder,
mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel. möpurr; cf.
OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.]
(Bot.) 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.

&fist; Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part
of a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.

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