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Any sting ray. See under 6th Ray.

r 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.

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.

The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.

The act of covering or sweetening with sugar; also, the sugar thus used.

Without sugar; free from sugar.

A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser.

Being above the vulgar or common people. [R.] Collier.

A garment worn below another.

To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar. Lamb.

Given to, or characterized by, vagaries; capricious; whimsical; crochety.

wandering of the thoughts; a wild or fanciful freak; a whim; a whimsical purpose. "The vagaries of a child." Spectator. They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. Milton.

hing sour; -- used also metaphorically. Here's the challenge: . . . I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't. Shak. Aromatic vinegar, strong acetic acid highly flavored with aromatic substances. -- Mother of vinegar. See 4th Mother. -- Radical vinegar, acetic acid. -- Thieves' vinegar. See under Thief. -- Vinegar…

Any of several fruit flies, esp. Drosophila ampelopophila, which breed in imperfectly sealed preserves and in pickles.

See Vinaigrette, n., 2.

A whip scorpion, esp. a large Mexican species (Thelyphonus giganteus) popularly supposed to be very venomous; -- from the odor that it emits when alarmed.

Having the nature of vinegar; sour; unamiable.

neral; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular. "As common as any the most vulgar thing to sense. " Shak. Things vulgar, and well-weighed, scarce worth the praise. Milton. It might be more useful to the English reader . . . to write in our vulgar language. Bp. Fell. The mechanical process of multiplying boo…