Molasses
[mə'læsɪz]
Definition
(noun.) thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Treacle.
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Definition
n.sing. a kind of syrup that drains from sugar during the process of manufacture: treacle.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of molasses, is a sign that some one is going to extend you pleasant hospitality, and, through its acceptance, you will meet agreeable and fortunate surprises. To eat it, foretells that you will be discouraged and disappointed in love. To have it smeared on your clothing, denotes you will have disagreeable offers of marriage, and probably losses in business.
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Examples
- They say the Jeune Amelie was his, which was taken by the Yankee privateer Molasses. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The only things that I ever could get were coffee made from burnt bread, with brown molasses-cake. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then I came in with cracked hickory nuts, then pop-corn balls, and, finally, molasses candy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The captures consisted largely of cattle, sheep, poultry, some bacon, cornmeal, often molasses, and occasionally coffee or other small rations. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I remember some large pipes, and especially a molasses jug, a trunk, and several other things that came from Holland. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Don't try too many messes, Jo, for you can't make anything but gingerbread and molasses candy fit to eat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Corn, wheat, rye, in fact all cereals and grains, potatoes, and most vegetables are rich in carbohydrates; as are also sugar, molasses, honey, and maple sirup. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Here the boys emerged from under the table, and, with hands and faces well plastered with molasses, began a vigorous kissing of the baby. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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