(a) The sweet crystalline substance sugar; -- freq. in combs. & phrases identifying place of origin: ~ babiloine (cipres, marrok, marrokes), ~ de cipres (marrok), ~ of alisaundre (cipres); (b) in phrases indicating form, quality, or stage of refinement: ~ blaunk, blaunk ~, white sugar; ~ caffatin, white sugar of second quality, sold in a rounded loaf; ~ de (del) roche, ~ de rupe, rock sugar; ~ in plate, a cheap loaf sugar, flattened at the top [cp. ~ plate in sense (d)]; ~ of candi, crystallized sugar, sugar broken in lumps [cp. sugre-candi n.]; blak ~, brown sugar, low-grade sugar; lof de ~, a loaf of sugar, sugar loaf [cp. lof-sugre n., sugre-lof n.]; poudre of ~, sugar in the form of powder, crushed sugar; red ~, ?low-grade sugar; water of ~, water in which sugar has been dissolved, sugar water; whit ~, white, highly refined sugar; (c) in phrases indicating combinations of sugar with a distillation or petals of roses, violets, or borage: ~ of roses (borage, violet), ~ rosarum (rosate, roset, rosi) [see also roset adj. (a)], ~ violace (violarum, ?violet); (d) in cpds. & combs.: ~ cane, sugar cane; -- used as epithet; ~ case, cassoun ~, lump sugar [cp. sugre-cassoun n.]; ~ plate, a flat sheet of caramelized sugar, often flavored with flower petals; a confection; ?~ pole, a stick of crystallized sugar, penide; ~ roche, rock sugar; ~ water, water in which sugar has been dissolved; lof ~, q.v.; pote ~, an inferior grade of sugar; (e) glossing L succus: ?sweet juice from a plant [cp. succe n.]; (f) fig. something that is health-giving, pleasing, valuable, etc.; (g) cook. clarified sugar; also, caramelized sugar [1st quot., 2nd occurrence]; (h) in prov. expressions, usu. in opposition to galle n.(1); (i) as adj.: sugary, sweet; also, fig. delightful, pleasing; eloquent.