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Sugar

A sweet white (or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink. Ordinary sugar is essentially sucrose. See the Note below.

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Caramel 76% connected

Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

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Jaggery 76% connected

Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that of the palmyra (Borassus…

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Dulcify 76% connected

To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.

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Dulcorate 76% connected

To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.

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Edulcorate 76% connected

To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity.

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macromolecule 76% connected

A large molecule, such as a protein or nucleic acid

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Money 76% connected

A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial trans…

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Sweeten 76% connected

To make sweet to the taste; as, to sweeten tea.

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Sweetener 76% connected

One who, or that which, sweetens; one who palliates; that which moderates acrimony.

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Sweetening 76% connected

of Sweeten

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Boodle 92% connected

The whole collection or lot; caboodle.

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Bread 92% connected

To spread.

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Cabbage 92% connected

An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The caul…

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Carbohydrate 92% connected

One of a group of compounds including the sugars, starches, and gums, which contain six (or some multiple of six) carbon atoms, united with a variabl…

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Dough 92% connected

Paste of bread; a soft mass of moistened flour or meal, kneaded or unkneaded, but not yet baked; as, to knead dough.

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Gelt 92% connected

Trubute, tax.

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Kale 92% connected

A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species.

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Lettuce 92% connected

A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactu…

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Loot 92% connected

The act of plundering.

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Lucre 92% connected

Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense.

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Moolah 92% connected

Alt. of Moollah

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Pelf 92% connected

Money; riches; lucre; gain; -- generally conveying the idea of something ill-gotten or worthless. It has no plural.

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Saccharify 92% connected

To convert into, or to impregnate with, sugar.

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Scratch 92% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Wampum 92% connected

Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.

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