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Cookery. A degree of condensation and stickiness reached in boiling sugar; = feather, n. 13. Obsolete.
Cookery. A small piece of boiled sugar. Also: a degree of condensation and stickiness reached in boiling sugar. See also pearled, adj.1 5. Now rare.