suffumigate

t. [ Lat.suffumigatus, pa. par. of suffumigo: suf (for sub )=under, and fumigo to fumigate (q. v.).] To apply fumes or smoke to the parts of, as to the body, in medical treatment. suf-fü-mi-gā'-tion, s. [SUFFUMIGATE.] 1. The operation of applying fumes to the parts of the body; fumigation. "If the matter be so gro as it yields not to remedies, it may be attempted by suffumigation ."-Wiseman: Sur IMG:content-0532.png:[blocks in formation] 3. A fume, a fumigation. "Hippo crates moreover was of this opinion, that a suf fumigation made therewith [garlick] fetcheth downe the afterbirth of women newly delivered and brought to bed."-P. Holland: Pliny , bk. xx., ch. vi. *suf-fü-mige, s . [Lat. suffumigo to suffumigate (q. v.).] A medical fume. "For external means, drying suffumiges or smoaks are prescribed with good succe ."-Harvey: On Consumption. suf-füşe', v . t. [Latin suffusus , pa. par. of suf fun do to pour beneath, to suffuse beneath or upon; suf (for sub )=under, and fun do to pour.] To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover as with something fluid. 246 "Medora still (while tears his cheeks sufuse) The dear remembrance of his lord renews." Hoole: Orlando Furioso, xviii. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; men table sugars, as cane-sugar, glucose, maltose, . Cane-sugar, C12H22O11, called also Saccharose, Sucrose, and Canose, is found in the juice of many gra es, in the sap of several trees, and in beet and several other roots. It appears to be the transition product between starch and invert-sugar in all plants which yield the latter compounds. Walnuts, almonds, and St. John's bread contain only cane sugar. It is extracted most easily from sugar-cane, but on the continent of Europe is manufactured on a large scale from beet-root. The expre ed juice is heated nearly to the boiling point, and a small quantity of slaked lime added. The clear liquid which separates from the coagulum is evaporated as rapidly as po ible, and transferred into shallow ve els to crystallize. Drained from the syrup or mola es, it yields the raw sugar of commerce. When further refined by treatment with animal charcoal, poured into molds, and then dried in a stove, the product is loaf-sugar. When the crystallization is allowed to proceed very slowly, sugar-candy results. Moderately heated it melts, and solidifies on cooling to an amorphous ma , familiar as barley-sugar. Pure sugar separates from its solution in transparent colorle crystals, having the figure of a modified monoclinic prism. It has a pure, sweet taste, and requires for solution only one-third of its weight of cold water. Its crystals have a specific gravity of 16. Heated above 210°, water is given off and a brown substance known as caramel remains. Cane-sugar is transformed into invert-sugar by boiling in presence of dilute acids, mineral acting more rapidly than organic acids. Strong sulphuric acid completely decomposes cane-sugar, and nitric acid converts it into saccharic acid. It turns a ray of polarized light to the right, Aj=73.8. [INVERT-SUGAR, MAPLE SUGAR.] B. As adj .: Made of sugar. sugar-baker, s. One who refines sugar. sugar-bean, s. Bot.: (1) Phaseolus sac char at us; (2) P. lunatus . sugar-beet, substant . A variety of the Common Beet, Beta vulgar is , cultivated on the Continent of Europe, and to some extent in America, from which is extracted sugar. [BEETROOT-SUGAR.] sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-0533.png:[blocks in formation] sugar-birds, s. pl. Ornith.: The family Coœribide, a group of delicate little birds, allied to the Dicæide and the Drepanid ide, but with protrusile tongues, and confined almost entirely to the tropical parts of America.