molasses

3 definitions found

molasses - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Molasses \Mo*las"ses\, n. [F. m['e]lasse, cf. Sp. melaza, Pg.
     mela[,c]o, fr. L. mellaceus honeylike, honey-sweet, mel,
     mellis, honey. See Mellifluous, and cf. Melasses.]
     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.
     [1913 Webster]

molasses - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  molasses
      n 1: thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar
           cane; especially during sugar refining

molasses - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "molasses":
     adherent, adhesive, albumen, ambrosia, artificial sweetener,
     barnacle, batter, blackstrap, bonnyclabber, bramble, brier,
     bulldog, burr, butter, calcium cyclamate, cane syrup, cement,
     clabber, clover honey, comb honey, corn syrup, cornstarch, cream,
     curd, cyclamates, decal, decalcomania, dough, edulcoration,
     egg white, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo,
     gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, honey, honeycomb, honeydew,
     honeypot, jam, jell, jelly, leech, limpet, loblolly, maple syrup,
     mucilage, mucus, nectar, pap, paste, plaster, porridge, prickle,
     pudding, pulp, puree, putty, remora, rob, saccharification,
     saccharin, semifluid, semiliquid, size, sodium cyclamate, sorghum,
     soup, starch, sticker, sticky mess, sugar, sugar-making,
     sugaring off, sweetener, sweetening, sweets, syrup, thorn,
     treacle