Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUG'AR, v.t. [shu'gar.]

1. To impregnate, season, cover, sprinkle or mix with sugar. – Crashaw.
2. To sweeten. But flattery still in sugar'd words betrays. – Denham.

SUG-AR-CAN-DY, n. [sugar and candy.]

Sugar clarified and concreted or crystalized.

SUG-AR-CANE, n. [sugar and cane.]

The cane or plant from whose juice sugar is obtained; Saccharum officinarum.

SUG'AR-ED, pp.

Sweetened.

SUG-AR-HOUSE, n.

A building in which sugar is refined.

SUG'AR-LESS, a.

Free from sugar.

SUG-AR-LOAF, n.

A conical mass of refined sugar.

SUG-AR-MILL, n.

A machine for pressing out the juice of the sugar-cane.

SUG-AR-MITE, n. [sugar and mite.]

A winged insect; Lepisma. The Lepisma saccharina is an apterous or wingless insect, covered with silvery scales. – Ed. Encyc.

SUGAR-PLUM, n. [sugar and plum.]

A species of sweet-meat in small balls.

SU'GAR-TREE, n.

The Acer saccharinum, from whose sap sugar is made by boiling.

SUG'AR-Y, a.

1. Tinctured or sweetened with sugar; sweet; tasting like sugar.
2. Fond of sugar, or of sweet things. – Todd.
3. Containing sugar. – Ash.
4. Like sugar. – Ash.

SUG'AR-Y, n.

A place where sugar is made from beets. [A new word.]

SU-GES'CENT, a. [L. sugens, sucking.]

Relating to sucking. – Paley.

SUG'GEST, v.t. [L. suggero, suggestus; sub and gero; It. suggerire; Fr. suggerer.]

1. To hint; to intimate or mention in the first instance; as, to suggest a new mode of cultivation; to suggest a different scheme or measure; to suggest a new idea.
2. To offer to the mind or thoughts. Some ideas are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. – Locke.
3. To seduce; to draw to ill by insinuation. Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested. – Shak. [Not in use.]
4. To inform secretly. We must suggest the people. [Not in use.] – Shak.

SUG-GEST'ED, pp.

Hinted; intimated.

SUG-GEST'ER, n.

One that suggests.

SUG-GEST'ING, ppr.

Hinting; intimating.

SUG-GES'TION, n. [Fr.; from suggest.]

1. A hint; a first intimation, proposal or mention. The measure was adopted at the suggestion of an eminent philosopher.
2. Presentation of an idea to the mind; as, the suggestions of fancy or imagination; the suggestions of conscience.
3. Insinuation; secret notification or incitement. – Shak.
4. In law, information without oath.

SUG-GES'TIVE, a.

Containing a hint or intimation.

SUG'GIL, v.t. [L. suggillo.]

To defame. [Not in use.] – Parker.

SUG'GIL-ATE, v.t. [L. suggillo.]

To beat livid or black and blue. [Not in use.] – Wiseman.

SUG-GIL-A'TION, n.

A livid or black and blue mark; a blow; bruise. [Not in use.]

SU-I-CI'DAL, a.

Partaking of the crime of suicide.

SU'I-CIDE, n. [Fr. from L. suicidium; se and cædo, to slay.]

1. Self-murder; the act of designedly destroying one's own life. To constitute suicide, the person must be of years of discretion and of sound mind. – Blackstone.
2. One guilty of self-murder; a felo de se.