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A kind of worm or larva. Walton.

lar consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.

The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.

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

Without sugar; free from sugar.

A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser.

Of or pertaining to sucking. [R.] Paley.

; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke.

One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.

The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.

Containing a suggestion, hint, or intimation. -- Sug*gest"ive*ly, adv. -- Sug*gest"ive*ness, n.

Treatment by commands or positive statements addressed to a more or less hypnotized patient.

Suggestion. [R.] They fancy that every thought must needs have an immediate outward suggestment. Hare.

A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.

To defame. [Obs.] Abp. Parker.

To beat livid, or black and blue. Wiseman.

A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.