sugar

SUGAR

s. saccharum (Plin. 12 8 17; of the sugar-cane): a sugar-baker *sacchari coctor: sugar-basin *pyxis sacchari: sugar-candy *saccharum crystallinum: sugar-loaf *meta sacchari (figuratively of a conical hill collis in modum metae in acutum cacumen fastigatus Liv.): sugar-paper *charta crassior sacchari metis amiclendis: sugar-plum *amygdalum saccharo conditum (a large sugar-plum); *spira saccharo condita (a small sugar-plum): a sugar-house *officina saccharo coquendo: a sugar-cane arundo saccharifera (Bau.); saccharum officinarum (Plin.): sweet as sugar dulcissimus; melleus; *sacchari dulcedinem habens.

sugar (subs.):

1. sacchăron, or -um, i, n. (for which v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v.): s. is honey collected in reeds, (s.) est mel in arundinibus collectum, Plin. 12, 8, 17, § 32 (cf. apud Indos mel in arundinum foliis, Sen. Ep. 84, 3): brown or moist s., *s. nondum a faecibus satis purgatum (Ainsw.): powdered s., *s. ad pulverem redactum (id.): loaf s., *s. in metae modum (Quich.): to refine s., *s. defaecare (id.).

2. sūcus dulcis (in plur.): they who suck s. from the fragile reed, qui bibunt tenera dulces ab arundine s., Lucan 3, 237. Phr.: sweet as s., dulcissimus, mellitus (v. SWEET, HONEYED).

sugar (v.): *sacchăro condīre (Georg.). For fig. sense, v. TO FLATTER.