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

Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

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.

ipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, often spotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.

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.

Preserved in or with sugar; incrusted with a candylike substance; as, candied fruits.

To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.

Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane.

Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variable number of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, but with the two latter always in proportion as to form water; as dextrose, C6H12O6.

A smooth soft covering resembling or suggesting a carpet. "The grassy carpet of this plain." Shak. Carpet beetle or Carpet bug (Zoöl.), a small beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariæ), which, in the larval state, does great damage to carpets and other woolen goods; -- also called buffalo bug. -- Carpet knight. (a) A knight wh…

Raw sugar; sugar not refined. Mc Elrath.

A kind of warm drink for sick persons, being a mixture of wine with eggs, bread, sugar, and spices.

A word which expresses or suggests a cause.

is a carbohydrate, (C6H10O5)n, isomeric with starch, and is convertible into starches and sugars by the action of heat and acids. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. Starch cellulose, the delicate framework which r…

A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action.

diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. Watts.

A sugarlike body obtained by the decomposition of the nitrogenous non-phosphorized principles of the brain.