Molasses definition

mə-lăsĭz
A thick syrup produced in refining raw sugar and ranging from light to dark brown in color.
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A thick, usually dark-brown syrup produced during the refining of sugar, or from sorghum, etc.
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A thick brownish syrup produced in the refining of raw sugar.
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Plural form of molasse.
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Origin of molasses

  • Portuguese melaços pl. of melaço from Late Latin mellāceum must from Latin mel mell- honey melit- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 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.

    From Wiktionary

Molasses Sentence Examples

  • More than likely the bear had been attracted by the molasses in the grain.

  • Sugar and molasses have from time to time been manufactured from the corn stalks.

  • Manufacturing industries are for the most part closely related to the products of the soil, about two-thirds of the value of all manufactures in Igoo and in 1905 being represented by sugar and molasses refining, lumber and timber products, cotton-seed oil and cake, and rice cleaned and polished.

  • On some plantations making sugar for particular markets and use in refineries it is the custom to make only one class of sugar, by boiling the molasses produced by the purging of one strike with the sugar in the next strike.

  • Within its limits, in 1905, all the sugar and molasses were manufactured and much of the petroleum was refined, nearly all of the iron and steel ships and steam locomotives were built, and 93% of the carpets and rugs were made, and the total value of the manufactures of this city in that year was nearly one-third of that for the entire state.

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