noun. A sweet crystalline or powdered substance, white when pure, consisting of sucrose obtained mainly from sugar cane and sugar beets and used in many foods, drinks, and medicines to improve their taste.

noun. Any of a class of water-soluble crystalline carbohydrates, including sucrose and lactose, having a characteristically sweet taste and classified as monosaccharides, disaccharides, and trisaccharides.

noun. A unit, such as a lump or cube, in which sugar is dispensed or taken.

noun. Sweetheart. Used as a term of endearment.

intransitive verb. To coat, cover, or sweeten with sugar.

intransitive verb. To make less distasteful or more appealing.

intransitive verb. To form sugar.

intransitive verb. To form granules; granulate.

intransitive verb. To make sugar or syrup from sugar maple sap. Often used with off.

To season, cover, sprinkle, mix, or impregnate with sugar.

Figuratively, to cover as with sugar; sweeten; disguise so as to render acceptable what is otherwise distasteful.

To sweeten something, as tea, with sugar.

To make (maple) sugar.

noun. The general name of certain chemical compounds belonging to the group of carbohydrates.

noun. A sweet crystalline substance, prepared chiefly from the expressed juice of the sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum, and of the sugar-beet, but obtained also from a great variety of other plants, as maple, maize, sorghum, birch, and parsnip.

noun. Something that resembles sugar many of its properties.

noun. Figuratively, sweet, honeyed, or soothing words; flattery employed to disguise something distasteful.

noun. The coarse grains or dust of refined sugar formed during the operations of crushing or cutting loaf-sugar, and separated from the lumps by screening.

transitive verb. To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with.

transitive verb. To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten.

intransitive verb. In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off.

noun. A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.

noun. By extension, anything resembling sugar in taste or appearance.

noun. Compliment or flattery used to disguise or render acceptable something obnoxious; honeyed or soothing words.

noun. See Quercite.

noun. sugar made from the sugar cane; sucrose, or an isomeric sugar. See Sucrose.

noun. a variety of sugar (grape sugar or dextrose) excreted in the urine in diabetes mellitus; -- the presence of such a sugar in the urine is used to diagnose the illness.

noun. undefined

noun. See under Fruit, and Fructose.

noun. a sirupy or white crystalline sugar (dextrose or glucose) found as a characteristic ingredient of ripe grapes, and also produced from many other sources. See Dextrose, and Glucose.

noun. See under Invert.

noun. a variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, found in malt. See Maltose.

noun. a substance found in manna, resembling, but distinct from, the sugars. See Mannite.

noun. a variety of sugar characteristic of fresh milk, and isomeric with sucrose. See Lactose.

noun. a sweet white crystalline substance isomeric with, and formerly regarded to, the glucoses. It is found in the tissue of muscle, the heart, liver, etc. Called also heart sugar. See Inosite.

noun. See Pinite.

noun. a variety of dextrose made by the action of heat and acids on starch from corn, potatoes, etc.; -- called also potato sugar, corn sugar, and, inaccurately, invert sugar. See Dextrose, and Glucose.

noun. one who refines sugar.

noun. a variety of beet (Beta vulgaris) with very large white roots, extensively grown, esp. in Europe, for the sugar obtained from them.

noun. the hackberry.

noun. any one of several species of small South American singing birds of the genera Cœreba, Dacnis, and allied genera belonging to the family Cœrebidæ. They are allied to the honey eaters.

noun. See Sugar orchard.

noun. a place in or near a sugar orchard, where maple sugar is made.

noun. sugar candy.

noun. sugar clarified and concreted or crystallized; candy made from sugar.

noun. a tall perennial grass (Saccharum officinarium), with thick short-jointed stems. It has been cultivated for ages as the principal source of sugar.

noun. A hat shaped like a sugar loaf.

noun. the rock maple (Acer saccharinum). See Maple.

noun. a machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar cane, usually consisting of three or more rollers, between which the cane is passed.

noun. The lepisma.

"Hence in the making of candy from granulated sugar, it is desirable to add glucose or sirup to granulated sugar or to change some of the crystallized sugar to a sugar which crystallizes with difficulty, _i. e._ _invert sugar_."

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