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Webster 1913 Edition

Molasses

Mo-las′ses

,
Noun.
[F.
mélasse
, cf. Sp.
melaza
, Pg.
melaço
, 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
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Molasses

MOLASSES

, an incorrect orthography of melasses.

Definition 2024

molasses

molasses

English

Noun

molasses ‎(uncountable)

  1. A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
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Etymology 2

Noun

molasses

  1. plural of molasse

References

  • molasses in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • “molasses” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Etymology

French mélasse or Portuguese melaço compare Spanish melaza, from Late Latin mellaceus "honeylike", "honey-sweet", from Latin mel, mellis, "honey". See mellifluous and compare melasses.

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