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uor flavored with the kernels of cherries, apricots, peaches, or other fruit, spiced, and sweetened with sugar; -- a term applied to the liqueurs called noyau, curaçao, etc. [Written also ratifia and ratafee.]

t, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or a kind of sweetened biscuit.

A tea cake slighty sweetened, and raised with yeast, baked in the form of biscuits or in a thin loaf, and eaten hot with butter.

Wine and water sweetened and spiced, -- a favorite West Indian drink.

A refreshing drink, common in the East, made of the juice of some fruit, diluted, sweetened, and flavored in various ways; as, orange sherbet; lemon sherbet; raspberry sherbet, etc.

An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.

A dish made by mixing wine or cider with milk, and thus forming a soft curd; also, sweetened cream, flavored with wine and beaten to a stiff froth. [Written also syllabub.]

Moistened, covered, or sweetened with sirup, or sweet juice.

A drink composed of spirit (usually gin) and water sweetened. sling.

To cover with soft words; to disguise by flattery; to compliment; to sweeten; as, to sugar reproof. With devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself. Shak.

Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.

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

ivative of toluene. It is the sweetest substance known, having over two hundred times the sweetening power of sugar, and is known in commerce under the name of saccharine. It has acid properties and forms salts (which are inaccurately called saccharinates). I. Remsen.

To sweeten. [Obs.] Udall.

A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened.

A hot sweetened drink of rum and water spiced with cinnamon, cloves, etc., and beaten up with eggs.

An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. T. R. Lounsbury. Under his tongue a truelove he bore. Chaucer. Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does not readily untie; the emblem of interwoven affection or engagement; -- called also true-lover…

Water flavored, sweetened, and frozen, to be eaten as a confection.