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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.

A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.

A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.

tillation of certain acetates, or by the destructive distillation of citric acid, starch, sugar, or gum, with quicklime.

To make acid; to convert into an acid; as, to acidify sugar.

A beverage, formerly made by boiling ale with spice, sugar, and sops of bread. Their aleberries, caudles, possets. Beau. & Fl.

ydroxide of amyl. -- Amylic fermentation (Chem.), a process of fermentation in starch or sugar in which amylic alcohol is produced. Gregory.

The conversion of starch into soluble products, as dextrins and sugar, esp. by the action of enzymes. -- Am`y*lo*lyt"ic (#), a.

Effecting the conversion of starch into soluble dextrin and sugar; as, an amylolytic ferment. Foster.

orghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.

A pie made of apples (usually sliced or stewed) with spice and sugar. Apple-pie bed, a bed in which, as a joke, the sheets are so doubled (like the cover of an apple turnover) as to prevent any one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.…

A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.

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