Sugar

shoog′ar, 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 gra ( Saccharum of ficin arum ) 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′arine , state or quality of being sugary or sweet; Sug′ar-loaf , a loaf or ma of sugar, usually in the form of a truncated cone; Sug′ar-mā′ple , the hard maple; Sug′ar-mill , a machine for pre ing 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. [Fr. sucre —Sp. azucar —Ar. a okhar —Pers. shakar —Sans. carkarā , sugar, orig. grains of sand, applied to sugar because occurring in grains.]