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- Sugar - n. - A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.
- Sugar - n. - By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.
- Sugar - n. - Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
- Sugar - v. i. - In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.
- Sugar - v. t. - To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
- Sugar - v. t. - To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
- Sugar-house - n. - A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
- Sugared - imp. & p. p. - of Sugar
- Sugared - a. - Sweetened.
- Sugared - a. - Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.
- Sugariness - n. - The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.
- Sugaring - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Sugar
- Sugaring - n. - The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.
- Sugaring - n. - The act or process of making sugar.
- Sugarless - a. - Without sugar; free from sugar.
- Sugarplum - n. - A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
- Sugary - a. - Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet.
- Sugary - a. - Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
- Candy - v. i. - To have sugar crystals form in or on; as, fruits preserved in sugar candy after a time.
- Gleucometer - n. - An instrument for measuring the specific gravity and ascertaining the quantity of sugar contained in must.
- Sugar-house - n. - A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
- Potting - n. - The process of putting sugar in casks for cleansing and draining.
- Metacetone - n. - A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.
- Maltose - n. - A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.
- Clarifier - n. - A vessel in which the process of clarification is conducted; as, the clarifier in sugar works.
- Lozenge - n. - A small cake of sugar and starch, flavored, and often medicated. -- originally in the form of a lozenge.
- Mannitose - n. - A variety of sugar obtained by the partial oxidation of mannite, and closely resembling levulose.
- Lambert pine - - The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
- Invertin - n. - An unorganized ferment which causes cane sugar to take up a molecule of water and be converted into invert sugar.
- Sugar - v. t. - To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
- Jam - n. - A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.
- Kama - n. - The Hindoo Cupid. He is represented as a beautiful youth, with a bow of sugar cane or flowers.
- Sugary - a. - Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
- Iced - a. - Covered with something resembling ice, as sugar icing; frosted; as, iced cake.
- Orchard - n. - An inclosure containing fruit trees; also, the fruit trees, collectively; -- used especially of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees.
- Candy - v. t. - To incrust with sugar or with candy, or with that which resembles sugar or candy.
- Melitose - n. - A variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, extracted from cotton seeds and from the so-called Australian manna (a secretion of certain species of Eucalyptus).
- Cassonade - n. - Raw sugar; sugar not refined.
- Saccharomyces - n. - A genus of budding fungi, the various species of which have the power, to a greater or less extent, or splitting up sugar into alcohol and carbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiae is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.
- Trust - n. - An organization formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust.
- Spile - n. - A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.
- Sugar - n. - By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.
- Rattoon - n. - One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.