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▪ I. sugary, n.|ˈʃʊgərɪ|
Also 7 suggarie.
[for *sugarery, f. sugar n.: see -ery and cf. F. sucrerie.]
1. A sugar-manufactory. Obs. exc. as in b.
1696Acts Parl. Scot., Will. (1823) X. 66/2 The Manufactory of Sugar commonly called the Suggarie.
b. U.S. and Canada. A place where maple-juice is collected and boiled for the purpose of making sugar; a sugar-camp.
1840P. H. Gosse Canadian Nat. 67 We will go into the Sugary, where the men are collecting the sap from the maple-trees. 1884Allen's New Amer. Farm Bk. 272 The primitive mode of arranging the sugary, is with large receiving troughs..placed near the fires.
†2. Sugar-manufacture. Obs.
1747State of Sugar-Trade 6 These Computations are made upon the whole British Sugary.
▪ II. sugary, a.|ˈʃʊgərɪ|
Also 6 sugerye, sugrie.
[f. sugar n. + -y.]
1. Full of, containing, or impregnated with sugar; pertaining to or resembling (that of) sugar; sweet, sweetened.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 49/4 Ther is a sugerye dulcor or sweetnes extracted out of Leade. 1598Florio, Zuccheroso,..sugrie. 1707Curios. Husb. & Gard. 72 A sweet and sugary Juice. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Pyrus, The Flesh is melting, and if not too ripe, of a sugary Flavour. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 118 The sugary sap of Acer saccharinum..from which sugar is extracted. 1844Disraeli Coningsby i. ix. 37 The baskets of certain vendors of sugary delicacies. 1851Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XII. i. 284 A drab-coloured, dry, ‘sugary’ silt. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. App. xx. 397 Coarse sugary marble. 1870― Lect. Art vii. 176 A crystalline or sugary frost-work. 1896A. H. Beavan Marlboro Ho. v. 77 Henry..being remarkably fond of all kinds of delicate sugary cates.
2. fig. Deliciously or alluringly sweet; honeyed; deceitfully or flatteringly pleasant; also, excessively or offensively sweet. Also advb.
1591Spenser M. Hubberd 819 And with the sugrie sweete thereof allure Chast Ladies eares to fantasies impure. 1834Beckford Italy II. 82 As I had just received a sugary epistle from this paragon of piety. 1841L. Hunt Seer (1864) 27 She would not have him, notwithstanding his sugary verses. 1845Disraeli Sybil (1863) 151 ‘Is he very violent?’ inquired her ladyship, in a sugary tone. 1855Carlyle Let. to J. W. Carlyle 2 Sept., The Dragon herself is all civility and sugary smiles. 1879F. Harrison Choice of Bks. (1886) i. 14 Sugary stanzas of ladylike prettiness. 1881M. E. Braddon Asph. II. 268 Twenty couples were revolving to the last sugary-sweet German waltz.
†3. Fond of sugar or sweet things. rare.
1664Beale in Evelyn's Pomona 22, I did once prefer the Gennet-moyl Cider, but had only the Ladies on my side, as gentler for their sugary palats. |