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bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea.

Sugar cane, as it

rom which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. Barley bird (Zoöl.), the siskin. -- Barley sugar, sugar boiled till it is brittle (formerly with a decoction of barley) and candied. -- Barley water, a decoction of barley, used in medicine, as a nutritive and demulcent.

An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that

iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum. Thou shalt beat some of it [spices] very small. Ex. xxx. 36. They did beat the gold into thin plates. Ex. xxxix. 3.

nt species and varieties of which are used for the table, for feeding stock, or in making sugar.

avis.) Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

A beverage, being a mixture of wine, oranges or lemons, and sugar. Swift.

Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.

actice of collecting natives of the islands near Queensland for service on the Queensland sugar plantations. [Australia]

To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation; as, to boil sugar or salt.

Sugar confectionery; a sugarplum; hence, any dainty.

also applied to a spirit obtained from grain. Brandy fruit, fruit preserved in brandy and sugar.

Any oblong rectangular mass; as, a brick of maple sugar; a penny brick (of bread).

A slightly sweetened raised cake or bisquit with a glazing of sugar and milk on the top crust.

A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. [Colloq.] Dickens.

f calves. The gelatinous matter of the feet is extracted by boiling, and is flavored with sugar, essences, etc.

An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.