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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
molasses
noun
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▪ His aunt sent him a box of molasses cookies, and I sent him two corned beefs on rye.
▪ Honey or molasses may be served with it but most will find it is best with butter or margarine.
▪ It was thick and almost crudely black, with a shine on it like molasses.
▪ Similar research projects are developing plastics from materials such as corn, molasses, potato peelings and castor oil.
▪ Stir browned onions, molasses, mustard, tomato paste, cloves and cinnamon into beans.
▪ The molasses triggered bacterial growths which consumed all the oxygen, killing virtually all the fish and other water creatures.
▪ The beer is obtained by the fermentation of molasses and banana juice.
▪ The orange molasses glaze is flecked with mustard seeds to give it texture and flavor.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Molasses

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
molasses

1580s, from Portuguese melaço, from Late Latin mellaceum "new wine," properly neuter of mellaceus "resembling honey," from Latin mel (genitive mellis) "honey" (see Melissa). Adopted in English in plural form, but regarded as a singular noun.

Wiktionary
molasses

Etymology 1 n. A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar. Etymology 2

n. (plural of molasse English)

WordNet
molasses

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

Wikipedia
Molasses

Molasses, or black treacle (British, for human consumption; known as molasses otherwise), is a viscous by-product of refining sugarcane or sugar beets into sugar. Molasses varies by amount of sugar, method of extraction, and age of plant. Molasses is primarily used for sweetening and flavoring foods. It is a defining component of fine commercial brown sugar.

Sweet sorghum syrup may be colloquially called "sorghum molasses" in the southern United States. Similar products include treacle, honey, maple syrup, corn syrup, and invert syrup. Most of these alternative syrups have milder flavors.

Usage examples of "molasses".

Impoverished Argali could never match such an offer: shovels and awls forged from fine metals, stacks of dried firewood, golden bridle bells, dewhoney and molasses, dried rose-leeks, cobberwheat, tri-grains, and reedflour that poured through your fingers like powdered rubies.

Kitty forced herself to eat the hoecakes, slathered in molasses and fresh-churned butter, but the slab of fried ham was too greasy for her still weak stomach.

Splenda with a very small amount of molasses gives a good, brown-sugar flavor to all sorts of recipes.

I keep my molasses in a squeeze container to make it easy to measure out very small quantities.

Splenda, pineapple, soy sauce, molasses, and garlic, and set it by the stove.

Mix the ketchup, teriyaki sauce, Splenda, molasses, and garlic together, pour it into the cooker, cover the pot, and set it on Low.

Splenda, molasses, garlic, and thyme, and dump it on top of the chicken and mushrooms.

Stir in the Splenda, molasses, salt, dry mustard, paprika, chili powder, black pepper, water, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and horseradish.

I love the warm brown flavor of the molasses contrasted with the cool, sharp flavor of the grapefruit.

Brer Rabbit got done laughing, he call up the little Rabs, give them some molasses for supper, and spanked them and sent them to bed.

I might make you a drink out of molasses and herbs, with some spirits in it.

British plantations, but they smuggle in French molasses and drive the price down.

Sir George was drinking wine and yawning over a list of molasses prices.

Throughout the voyage their only meal had been dinner, but today they got a breakfast of porridge and molasses and a ration of rum and water.

Just like that, something tender he had never felt before took over his bones and seeped into his guts like a golden molasses, making him want to cry.