sugar planter

One who owns or manages land devoted to the cultivation of the sugar-cane. sugar-plum, s. A kind of sweetmeat made of boiled sugar, colored and flavored with various ingredients, and formed into balls or disks. sugar-refiner, s. One who refines sugar. sugar-refinery, s. 1. A building where sugar is refined. 2. The proce of purification of raw or brown sugar. The sugar is (1) di olved in water a little blood and lime-water being added; (2) filtered in bags to remove feculences; (3) filtered through animal charcoal, to remove color; (4) boiled in a vacuum-pan, to concentrate it; and (5) crystallized in IMG:content-0535.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Lit .: To impregnate, flavor, cover, sprinkle, or mix with sugar. [SUGARING, II.] 2. Fig .: To cover or hide, as with sugar; to sweeten, to disguise, as something unpleasant or distasteful, so as to render it acceptable. "With devotion's visage, And pious action, we do sugar o'er The devil himself." Shakesp.: Hamlet , iii. 1. To sugar off is to proceed with the last stage in the manufacture of maple sugar-that of granula IMG:content-0536.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Sugar used for sweetening, . 3. The act or proce of making sugar. II. Entom.: A method of catching moths intro suggestivene 2. To propose with diffidence or modesty to propose indirectly or guardedly; to hint; to insinuate. "Then you suggested Avignon; and I a ented." Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xxiii. *3. To inform secretly; to prompt. *4. To tempt, to seduce. *B. In trans.: To make suggestions; to present evil thoughts to the mind.