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verb

Sugar v. t. (past & past part. sugared; pres. part. sugaring)

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

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."

Sugar 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.)

adjective

Sugared adj. Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Also used figuratively; as, sugared kisses.

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"Sugared" Quotes from Famous Books

... perseverance to accomplish, and resolution to maintain. For obedience to her husband, that is not to be tried till she has one: for faith in her confessor, she has as much as the law prescribes: for embroidery an Arachne: for music a Siren: and for pickling and preserving, did not one of her jars of sugared apricots give you your last surfeit at ...

— Maid Marian • Thomas Love Peacock

... like stars, her broad mouth never ceased to show a double row of snowy teeth. She revolved round her brothers and sisters, whispering in their ears, violently nudging them, and piling on the agony in the shape of cups of richly creamed and sugared tea, of thick slices of bread-and-butter and jam, and plum cake, topped with ...

— Polly - A New-Fashioned Girl • L. T. Meade

... Harrington! Good-day, Sir Thomas Parkes! Good-day, sweet Mistress Nettleby and Master Nettleby! Good-day, good-day, good-day!" for the richer folk were coming in at twopence each, and all the galleries were full. And then he heard the baker's boy with sugared cakes and ginger-nuts go ...

— Master Skylark • John Bennett

... "Down 'ammicks!" which is our naval way o' goin' to bye-bye, I took particular trouble over Antonio, 'oo had 'is 'ammick 'ove at 'im with general instructions to sling it an' be sugared. In the ensuin' melly I pioneered him to the after-'atch, which is a orifice communicatin' with the after-flat an' similar suites of apartments. He havin' navigated at three fifths power immejit ...

— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling

... Philip's idea of hospitality to enforce abstinence on their guests, and the men, at all events, sipped the rare old products of the Heredith cellars with unqualified approval, enhanced by painful recollections of the thin war claret and sugared ports of London clubs. Such wine, they felt, was not to be passed by. Of the young men, Phil Heredith alone drank water, not for the same reason as his father, but because he had ...

— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees

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