Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick syrup produced in refining raw sugar and ranging from light to dark brown in color.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The repellent fluid ejected from the mouths of grasshoppers and certain other insects when captured.
- noun The uncrystallized syrup produced in the manufacture of sugar. It properly differs from treacle in that it comes from sugar in the process of making, while treacle is obtained in the process of refining: but the two words are often used synonymously.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See
treacle .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
thick brownish syrup produced in therefining ofraw sugar . - noun Plural form of
molasse .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The proportion of soda to molasses that can usually be relied on for hot breads and cakes is _1 teaspoonful of soda to 1 cupful of molasses_, or just twice the quantity of soda that is generally used with sour milk.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 1: Essentials of Cookery; Cereals; Bread; Hot Breads
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A molasses known as _sorghum molasses_ is made by boiling the sap of sorghum, which is a stout cereal grass, but this variety is seldom found on the general market, it being used locally where it is manufactured.
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'O master,' he said, 'we have laid by great wealth in molasses and sugar and flour, but our shack is yet mean, our clothes thin, and our sleeping furs mangy.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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'O master,' he said, 'we have laid by great wealth in molasses and sugar and flour, but our shack is yet mean, our clothes thin, and our sleeping furs mangy.
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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Each character is finely defined and the secrets that they keep from each other come out as slowly as the molasses comes from the jar in the winter.
Advance reader reviews of Sweeping Up Glass by Carolyn D. Wall. 2010
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Pomegranate molasses is pomegranate juice that has been boiled down to an intensely flavored syrup.
Archive 2008-01-01 Laurie Constantino 2008
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Blackstrap molasses is the darkest, thickest and least sweet of the types of molasses and is the result of the third and final boiling of the sugar cane juice.
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Dark molasses is sometimes called “robust molasses,” as well.
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As you try to track them it feels like the camera is moving in molasses and it becomes difficult to dispatch them.
Flixnjoystix.com! » Kryos Thinks That ARMY OF TWO Is Not TWO Good! 2008
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My cold dark place is where my every action or thought is like swimming in molasses and monotony rules supreme.
polymorph commented on the word molasses
If you've never heard of the Boston molasses disaster check out this wiki article.
April 9, 2007
trivet commented on the word molasses
Best part of the mole...
April 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word molasses
Eeeeew! ;-)
April 9, 2007
uselessness commented on the word molasses
That is wrong on so many levels, trivet.
April 9, 2007
whichbe commented on the word molasses
A strong-arm of PONY LAW, Molasses don't take no guff from nobody.
August 9, 2008