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A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

ceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

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.

ed, saying that these things were so. Acts xxiv. 9. The princess assented to all that was suggested. Macaulay.

in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. Grove. The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. Longfellow.

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.

A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

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.