noun.
A white crystalline powder, C7H5NO3S, having a taste about 500 times sweeter than cane sugar, used as a calorie-free sweetener.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The anhydrid of saccharic acid, C6H10O5. It is a crystalline solid having a bitter taste, dextrorotatory, and non-fermentable.
noun.
A complex benzin derivative, benzoyl-sulphimide, C6H4SO2.CONH.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).