Sugar mite. (Zoöl.) (a) A small mite often found in great numbers in unrefined sugar. (b) The lepisma.Sugar of lead. See Sugar, 2, above.Sugar of milk. See under Milk.Sugar orchard, a collection of maple trees selected and preserved for purpose of obtaining sugar from them; — called also, sometimes, sugar bush. [U.S.] Bartlett.Sugar pine(Bot.), an immense coniferous tree (Pinus Lambertiana) of California and Oregon, furnishing a soft and easily worked timber. The resinous exudation from the stumps, etc., has a sweetish taste, and has been used as a substitute for sugar. Sugar squirrel(Zoöl.), an Australian flying phalanger having a long bushy tail and a large parachute. It resembles a flying squirrel. See Illust. under Phlanger.Sugar tongs, small tongs, as of silver, used at table for taking lumps of sugar from a sugar bowl.Sugar tree. (Bot.) See Sugar maple, above.

Sugar
(Sug"ar) v. i. In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; — with the preposition off. [Local, U.S.]

Sugar
(Sug"ar), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sugared ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sugaring.]

1. To impregnate, season, cover, or sprinkle with sugar; to mix sugar with. "When I sugar my liquor." G. Eliot.

2. 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.

Sugared
(Sug"ared) a. Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser. Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.

Sugar-house
(Sug"ar-house`) n. A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

Sugariness
(Sug"ar*i*ness) n. The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.

Sugaring
(Sug"ar*ing), n.

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

2. The act or process of making sugar.

Sugarless
(Sug"ar*less), a. Without sugar; free from sugar.

Sugarplum
(Sug"ar*plum`) n. A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.

Sugary
(Sug"ar*y) a.

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

2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.

Sugescent
(Su*ges"cent) a. [L. sugere to suck.] Of or pertaining to sucking. [R.] Paley.

Suggest
(Sug*gest") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suggested ; p. pr. & vb. n. Suggesting.] [L. suggestus, p. p. of suggerere to put under, furnish, suggest; sub under + gerere to carry, to bring. See Jest.]

1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; 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.

2. To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.


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