SUGAR

I. noun see: crocodile Date: 14th century 1. a sweet crystallizable material that consists wholly or essentially of sucrose, is colorless or white when pure tending to brown when less refined, is obtained commercially from ~cane or ~ beet and less extensively from sorghum, maples, and palms, and is important as a source of dietary carbohydrate and as a sweetener and preservative of other foods, any of various water-soluble compounds that vary widely in sweetness, include the monosaccharides and oligosaccharides, and typically are optically active, a unit (as a spoonful, cube, or lump) of ~, a ~ bowl, ~less adjective II. verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: 15th century transitive verb to make palatable or attractive ; sweeten , to sprinkle or mix with ~, intransitive verb to form or be converted into ~, to become granular ; granulate , to make maple syrup or maple ~