sugar (s as sh), sucre, suger, sugre

& a. [French sucre, from Sp. azucar sugar, from Arab. sakkar, sokkar sugar; Pers. shakar, from Sansc. çarkará gravel, sugar; allied to Lat. saccharum; Gr. sakchar, sakcharon; Port. azucár; Ital. zucchero.] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. Literally: (1) A sweet, crystallized substance manufactured from the expre ed juice of various plants, especially from the sugar-cane (q. v.). (2) Any substance, more or le resembling sugar in any of its properties; as, sugar of lead. 2. Figuratively : (1) Sweet, honeyed, or soothing words or flattery, used to disguise or hide something distasteful. (2) Money. ( Slang .) II. Chemical & Sugar Manuf .: Cn(OH2)m. The generic name for a large number of bodies occurring naturally in the animal or vegetable kingdom, or produced from glucosides by the action of ferments or dilute acids. They are all more or le soluble in water, and their solutions exert a rotatory action on polarized light. Some reduce alkaline either do not, or solutions of copper bilether ther may be cla ed under two heads, viz., unfermentable "The hough or suffraginous flexure behind rather out sugars, as mannite, dulcite, sorbite, ., and fer- ward."-Browne: Vulgar Errors , bk. iii., ch. i. *suf-fraunce, s. [SUFFERANCE.]