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Of or pertaining to saccharimetry; obtained saccharimetry.

The act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from the saccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- so called because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar (saccharose).

A salt of saccharinic acid.

f or pertaining to sugar; having the qualities of sugar; producing sugar; sweet; as, a saccharine taste; saccharine matter.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharin; specifically, designating a complex acid not known in the free state but well known in its salts, which are obtained by boiling dextrose and levulose (invert sugar) with milk of lime.

To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

resembling sugar, as in taste, appearance, consistency, or composition; as, saccharoidal limestone.

A saccharimeter.

arbonic acid. They are the active agents in producing fermentation of wine, beer, etc. Saccharomyces cerevisiæ is the yeast of sedimentary beer. Also called Torula.

A family of fungi consisting of the one genus Saccharomyces.

A salt of saccharonic acid.

A white crystalline substance, C6H8O6, obtained by the oxidation of saccharin, and regarded as the lactone of saccharonic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, saccharone; specifically, designating an unstable acid which is obtained from saccharone (a) by hydration, and forms a well-known series of salts.

Cane sugar; sucrose; also, in general, any one of the group of which saccharose, or sucrose proper, is the type. See Sucrose.

Saccharine.

A genus of tall tropical grasses including the sugar cane.

A chart or map on which the lines of the shore, islands, shoals, harbors, etc., are delineated.

Self-love. [Obs.] Shak.

Heavy with sleep.