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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.

of twelve tones to the octave. This scale, although in so far artificial, is yet closely suggestive of its origin in nature, and this system of tuning, although not mathematically true, yet satisfies the ear, while it has the convenience that the same twelve fixed tones answer for every key or scale, C# becoming ident…

fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

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…

r. -- To tip over, to overturn. -- To tip the wink, to direct a wink; to give a hint or suggestion by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope. -- To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.

A large truncated cone of refined sugar.

A hint; a suggestion; slight notice. A small touch will put him in mind of them. Bacon.

Near; at hand; in state of preparation. Do you hear sught, sir, of a battle toward Shak. We have a trifling foolish banquet Towards. Shak.

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.

e heel. The original form, owning to the positions assumed by the dancers, is offensively suggestive. Similar dances are the bunny hug and grizzly bear, so called in allusion to the movements and the positions assumed by the partners in dancing.

The state of being one; oneness. Whatever we can consider as one thing suggests to the understanding the idea of unity. Locks.