Sugar

shotjg'er, n. A sweet, granular substance of several kinds and qualities, obtained from certain vegetable products, as the sugar-cane, maple, beet, sorghum, etc.; that which resembles sugar in taste, appearance, etc.; as sugar of lead, that acetate of lead, which is like sugar in appearance, and tastes sweet; compliment or flattery employed to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious, —v. [sugared (-erd), -aring.] To impregnate, season, cover, sprinkle, or mix with sugar; to disguise bv flattery or soft words to compliment, sweeten. [ME. and F. sucre, Sp. azucar, Ar. sakkar. Per. shakar, sugar, Skr. garkara, gravel, also claved or candied sugar; prob. Skr. karkara, hard (see Cancer), L. calcuhi SUGGEST 582 whence E. saccharine, q. v.]— Sug'ary, -er-T, a. Resembling or containing sugar; sweet. — Sug ar-can dy, n. Sugar clarified and concreted or crystallized. cane, n. A large jointed species of gra or cane whose juice yields sugar. loaf, n. A ma of refined sugar, usually in the form of a truncated cone. ma'ple, n. A species of maple from whose sap sugar is made by boiling; rock-maple; sugar-tree.— -mill, n. A machine for pre ing out the juice of the sugar-cane. plum, n. A species of candy made up in small balls or disks. Suggest, sng-jest or sud-jesf, v. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts, cause to be thought of: to propose with diffidence or modesty to hint, allude, refer to, insinuate. [L. suggerere, -gestum, sub and gere to carry, to bring.]— Suggest'er, n.— Suggestion, -jes'chun, n. Act of suggesting thiug suggested a diffident proposal or mention; hint; intimation; prompting; presentation of an idea; a secret incitement, [i — Suggestive, -iv, a. Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation.