sugarplum (shugarplum)

A sweetmeat made of boiled sugar and various flavoring and coloring ingredients into a round shape, or into the shape of flattened balls or disks; a bon sugar-vinegar (shug'är-vine-gär), n . Vinegar made of the waste juice of sugar-cane. sugaryl (shug'är-i), a. [Early mod. E. also sug- appearance or properties; containing or com- posed of sugar; sweet; sometimes, exce ively or offensively sweet.-2. Fond of sugar or of sweet things: as, sugary palates.-3. Sweet in a figurative sense; honeyed; alluring; some- times, deceitful. And with the sugrie sweete thereof allure Chast Ladies eares to fantasies impure. Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 820. Wal singh am bewailed the implicit confidence which the Queen placed in the sugary words of Alexander [Duke of Parma). Motley, Hist. Netherlands, II. 329. sugary2 (shugʻa-ri), n .; pl. sugaries (-riz). [For * sugarery , sugar + -ery.] An establishment where sugar is made; a sugar-house. [Rare.] The primitive mode of arranging the sugary . New Amer. Farm Book, p. 272.