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molasses

məˈlæsəz
WordNet
Interesting fact
There was a molasses flood in Boston on January 15, 1919 that killed 21 people and injured 150 people
  1. (n) molasses
    thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Molasses
    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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) molasses
    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.
  2. (n) molasses
    The repellent fluid ejected from the mouths of grasshoppers and certain other insects when captured.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n.sing) Molasses
    mo-las′ez a kind of syrup that drains from sugar during the process of manufacture: treacle.
Quotations
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
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Idioms

Slower than molasses going uphill in January - (USA) To move extremely slowly. Molasses drips slowly anyway but add January cold and gravity, dripping uphill would be an impossibility, thereby making the molasses move very slowly indeed!

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. mélasse, cf. Sp. melaza, Pg. melaço, fr. L. mellaceus, honeylike, honey-sweet, mel, mellis, honey. See Mellifluous, and cf. Melasses

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Port. melaço (Fr. mélasse)—L. mell-aceus, honey-like—mel, mellis, honey.

Usage in the news

Old-fashioned molasses cookies are a holiday staple. csmonitor.com

Give molasses cookies a wholesome upgrade with this recipe. shape.com

Molasses Snow Candy Recipe. tnh.com

The pitcher's spout helps control the flow of the molasses . tnh.com

Molasses Buttercream 10 oz. abi.tv

Pomegranate molasses , a versatile taste brightener. columbiatribune.com

Molasses cookie ice cream sandwiches. latimes.com

Boston's 1919 molasses-tank explosion turned this elevated train structure into a twisted mass of metal. ired.com

I tried using liquid molasses to kill nut grass, but it hasn't worked. dallasnews.com

Dame Darcy the great molasses flood of 1919. bsrlive.com

Cane syrup, molasses, or dark brown sugar. illinoistimes.com

Literary Bushwick meets affordably- soused Bushwick at Molasses Bookstore. nydailynews.com

Grow Your Own Sweet Sorghum to Make Molasses. motherearthnews.com

Viscosity also can be subjectively expressed as water-thin or thick as molasses. screenweb.com

A plant that brews molasses has some sweet economic news for southwest Ohio. the-daily-record.com

Usage in scientific papers

Chu, Optical molasses and multilevel atoms: theory, J.
Mirror-mediated cooling: a paradigm for particle cooling via the retarded dipole force

By means of the two-level model, one can predict the equilibrium temperature, the socalled “Doppler” temperature TD , of atoms in molasses to be Γ, where Γ is the (half-width at half-maximum) linewidth of the transition from the excited to the ground level .
Scattering theory of multilevel atoms interacting with arbitrary radiation fields

Data from early three-dimensional molasses experiments contradicted this , showing that the achievable equilibrium temperature was in fact much lower.
Scattering theory of multilevel atoms interacting with arbitrary radiation fields

In that work we only considered the two-level atom model and showed, in particular, how our model can explain such mechanisms as standard optical molasses and mirror-mediated cooling .
Scattering theory of multilevel atoms interacting with arbitrary radiation fields

Random walks, liquidity molasses and critical response in financial markets.
The nature of price returns during periods of high market activity

Usage in literature

Molasse, accumulations of, 148. "The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays" by J. (John) Joly

She was loaded with molasses, indigo, and such from the West Indies, and I had a cargo of beaver-skins. "The Puritan Twins" by Lucy Fitch Perkins

We melted the sugar in the vinegar, stirred it into the molasses, and let it come to the boil, stirring steadily. "Holiday Stories for Young People" by Various

A spirit obtained from molasses, the fluid which drains from sugar while it is crystallizing. "A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery" by Benziger Brothers

I stewed some molasses for you, 'gin you come. "Aunt Phillis's Cabin" by Mary H. Eastman

When no fresh meat is to be had salt fish, bread (rarely with butter) and tea, with molasses as sweetening, is the diet. "The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador" by Dillon Wallace

The molasses and sugar trade with the foreigners went on merrily, smuggling taking the place of lawful traffic. "History of the United States" by Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

He pulled it out like so much molasses candy. "The Bad Man" by Charles Hanson Towne

Smear one side of the disc with molasses, and insert it in the tumbler with this side downward. "Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making" by William Hamilton Gibson

Jane's sentiment was like a full molasses pitcher that continues to drip in spite of all the lickings you give it. "The House of the Misty Star" by Fannie Caldwell Macaulay

Usage in poetry
"Pore thing!"
Floretty sighed, and with the turkey-wing
Brushed off the stove-hearth softly, and peered in
The kettle of molasses, with her thin
Voice wandering into song unconsciously--
In purest, if most witless, sympathy.--
I can say to all mah troubles,
"Ah! fly, ah! fly away!" When I'm sitting by mah only,
That's whah I'd like to stay. Got a voice as sweet as New Ohleans molasses
An' I'll gamble you ain't seen Such incandescent 'lectric eyes
As those of Emmaleen.