Molasses
51Sugar and Molasses Act — of March 1733 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 6 Geo II. c. 13), which imposed a tax of sixpence per gallon on molasses from non British colonies. Parliament passed the act largely at the insistence of large plantation… …
52Sugar and Molasses Act — La Sugar and Molasses Act est une loi britannique sur les sucres et mélasses de 1733 imposant une taxe de six cents sur chaque gallon de mélasse entrant aux treize colonies américaines. Elle sera suivie en 1764 par le Sugar Act du premier… …
53Les Molasses — Gresin Gresin Administration Pays France Région Rhône Alpes Département Savoie Arrondissement Chambéry Canton Saint Genix sur Gui …
54slower 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! …
55blackstrap molasses — noun see blackstrap 3 * * * /blak strap / molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from the raw product, used chiefly as a constituent of cattle feed and as a source of ethyl alcohol. [1915 20, Amer.; BLACK + STRAP] * * * black|strap… …
56Maple molasses — Maple Ma ple (m[=a] p l), n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel. m[ o]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.] (Bot.) A tree of the genus {Acer}, including about fifty species. {Acer saccharinum} is the {rock maple}, or… …
57blackstrap molasses — noun Etymology: blackstrap cheap wine, mixture of rum and molasses Date: 1880 a thick dark molasses obtained from successive processing of raw sugar …
58blackstrap molasses — ☆ blackstrap molasses [blak′strap΄] n. dark, thick molasses with most of the sugar removed …
59blackstrap molasses — /blak strap / molasses remaining after maximum extraction of sugar from the raw product, used chiefly as a constituent of cattle feed and as a source of ethyl alcohol. [1915 20, Amer.; BLACK + STRAP] * * * …
60as slow as molasses in January — only a dead snail is slower The tortoise is very slow as slow as molasses in January …
