English English Dictionary

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.

By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance; as, sugar of lead (lead acetate), a poisonous white crystalline substance having a sweet taste.

Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.

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.

To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.

To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

of Sugar

Sweetened.

Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.

The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.

of Sugar

The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.

The act or process of making sugar.

Without sugar; free from sugar.

A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet.

Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.

Of or pertaining to sucking.

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.