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A solid kind of electuary or confection, commonly made of dry ingredients with sugar, and usually formed into little flat squares; -- called also lozenge, and troche, especially when of a round or rounded form.

A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. [Written also, in England, toffy.]

A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow dish. [Obs.] Pepys. Double tansy (Bot.), a variety of the common tansy with the leaves more dissected than usual. -- Tansy mustard (Bot.), a plant (Sisymbrium canescens) of the Musta…

To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.

for a tea table, -- when of silver, usually comprising only the teapot, milk pitcher, and sugar dish. -- Tea set, a tea service. -- Tea table, a table on which tea furniture is set, or at which tea is drunk. -- Tea taster, one who tests or ascertains the quality of tea by tasting. -- Tea tree (Bot.), the tea plant…

One of the series of boilers in which the cane juice is treated in making sugar; especially, the last boiler of the series. Ure.

Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar. Temper screw, in deep well boring, an adjusting screw connecting the working beam with the rope carrying the tools, for lowering the tools as the drilling progresses.

They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane.

A pneumatic box or pan used in refining sugar. American tiger. (Zoöl.) (a) The puma. (b) The jaguar. -- Clouded tiger (Zoöl.), a handsome striped and spotted carnivore (Felis macrocelis or F. marmorata) native of the East Indies and Southern Asia. Its body is about three and a half feet long, and its tail about three…

A large truncated cone of refined sugar.

Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.

Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses.

oliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.

A sugar derived from a trihydric alcohol.

A complex sugar, as raffinose, yielding by hydrolysis three simple sugar molecules.

A long tube through which pellets of clay, p He shot sugarplums them out of a trunk. Howell.

med mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; as, a sugar trust. [Cant]

Refined; select; excellent; choice. [Obs.] "Sugar that is try." Chaucer.

ply the brakes. -- Vacuum pan (Technol.), a kind of large closed metallic retort used in sugar making for boiling down sirup. It is so connected with an exhausting apparatus that a partial vacuum is formed within. This allows the evaporation and concentration to take place at a lower atmospheric pressure and hence als…

The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, -- used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate.