Sugar
['ʃʊgə] or ['ʃʊgɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a white crystalline carbohydrate used as a sweetener and preservative.
(verb.) sweeten with sugar; 'sugar your tea'.
Editor: Verna--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(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.
(n.) Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.
(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.
(v. t.) To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.
(v. t.) To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof.
Typist: Rosanna
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Sweeten.
Edited by Katy
Definition
n. a sweet substance obtained chiefly from a kind of cane: anything sugary honeyed words flattery.—v.t. to sprinkle or mix with sugar: to compliment.—ns. Sug′ar-bak′er a sugar-refiner; Sug′ar-beet any one of several varieties of the common garden beet grown for sugar; Sug′ar-can′dy sugar candied or in large crystals; Sug′ar-cane the saccharine grass (Saccharum officinarum) from which sugar is chiefly obtained.—adj. Sug′ar-coat′ed coated with sugar.—p.adj. Sug′ared sweetened with sugar.—ns. Sug′ar-gum a large Australian eucalyptus yielding good timber with sweetish foliage; Sug′ar-house a factory where sugar is made; Sug′ariness state or quality of being sugary or sweet; Sug′ar-loaf a loaf or mass of sugar usually in the form of a truncated cone; Sug′ar-mā′ple the hard maple; Sug′ar-mill a machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar-cane; Sug′ar-mite a mite infesting unrefined sugar; Sug′ar-plum a species of sweetmeat made up in small ornamental balls or lumps like a plum: any very pleasing piece of flattery; Sug′ar-refī′ner one who refines raw sugar; Sug′ar-refī′nery.—n.pl. Sug′ar-tongs an implement for lifting pieces of sugar at table.—adj. Sug′ary sweetened with tasting of or like sugar: fond of sweets.—Sugar of lead acetate of lead.
Typed by Avery
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of sugar, denotes that you will be hard to please in your domestic life, and will entertain jealousy while seeing no cause for aught but satisfaction and secure joys. There may be worries, and your strength and temper taxed after this dream. To eat sugar in your dreams, you will have unpleasant matters to contend with for a while, but they will result better than expected. To price sugar, denotes that you are menaced by enemies. To deal in sugar and see large quantities of it being delivered to you, you will barely escape a serious loss. To see a cask of sugar burst and the sugar spilling out, foretells a slight loss. To hear a negro singing while unloading sugar, some seemingly insignificant affair will bring you great benefit, either in business or social states.
Edited by Edith
Examples
- Dissolve the citric acid in hot water, add the sugar, and lastly the lemon and almonds. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He is a corn merchant this year, and a wine merchant the next, and a sugar, tobacco, or tea merchant the year after. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- To this brine would be added a little sugar and saltpetre, and, after packing the meat the same as in the other case, enough of this brine would be added to entirely cover the meat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To make imitation maple syrup simply boil the syrup until it is reduced back to sugar again, and when it is made properly the flavor and appearance of the genuine article is obtained. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The father of one of his students was engaged in the manufacture of alcohol from beetroot sugar, and Pasteur came to be consulted when difficulties arose in the manufacturing process. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- And also much beets for sugar. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The remainder of the sugar settles at the bottom of the vessel, and cannot be dissolved by any amount of stirring. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Sugars is ris', my boy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- While, for example, Muscovado sugars from the British plantations pay, upon importation, only 6s:4d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We still have, though not altogether, yet very nearly, the monopoly of the sugars of our West Indian islands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Commercially, charcoal is used on a large scale in the refining of sugars, sirups, and oils. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Jo's one strong point was the fruit, for she had sugared it well, and had a pitcher of rich cream to eat with it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Do look at this bridegroom coming out of church: did you ever see such a 'sugared invention'--as the Elizabethans used to say? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Winfred