Sugar

(shoog’-ar) [ME., suger, sugar]. The generic name of a cla of sweet carbohydrates. See Saccharum. Chemically, sugars are divided as follows: Cane-sugar, C19H22- On; glucose (grape-sugar or starch-sugar), C6H1206; lactose, sugar of milk; and inosite, a variety found in certain muscular ti ues and in the juice of asparagus. S., Beet-, saccharose obtained from species of Beta, especially the common beet, Beta vulgar is. S., Diabetic, glucose. S., Fruit-, levulose. S., Grape-, glucose in the solid state. S., Invert. See Invert. S., Maple-, saccharose obtained from the* sugar-maple. Sugarhouse Eczema, an eczema sometimes observed in laborers employed in sugar refineries. 607