Molasses
41molasses — mo•las•ses [[t]məˈlæs ɪz[/t]] n. coo a thick syrup produced during the refining of sugar or from sorghum, usu. dark brown in color • Etymology: 1575–85; earlier molassos, molasso(e) s < Pg melaços, pl. of melaço (< LL mellācium half boiled… …
42molasses — /məˈlæsəz / (say muh lasuhz) noun 1. the thick brown bitter uncrystallised syrup drained from raw sugar. 2. US → treacle (def. 1). {Portuguese melaco, from Late Latin mellāceum must, from mel honey} …
43molasses — Malakeke …
44molasses — n.pl. (treated as sing.) 1 uncrystallized syrup extracted from raw sugar during refining. 2 US treacle. Etymology: Port. melaccedilo f. LL mellaceum MUST(2) f. mel honey …
45molasses kiss — noun a candy kiss that resembles toffee • Hypernyms: ↑kiss, ↑candy kiss …
46Boston Molasses Disaster — Aftermath of the disaster; photo by Globe Newspaper Co. (Boston Public Library) The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End… …
47Soy molasses — is brown viscous syrup with a typical bittersweet flavor. A by product of aqueous alcohol soy protein concentrate production, soy molasses is a concentrated, desolventized, aqueous alcohol extract of defatted soybean flakes.The term soy molasses… …
48Optical molasses — Schematic Optical molasses is a laser cooling technique that can cool down neutral atoms to temperatures colder than a magneto optical trap (MOT). An optical molasses consists of 3 pairs of counter propagating circularly polarized laser beams… …
49slow as molasses — (or slower than molasses) US informal : very slow or slowly I used to be a fast runner, but now I m slow as molasses. People have complained that the legislature is moving/working slower than molasses. • • • Main Entry: ↑molasses …
50sugarhouse molasses — Treacle Trea cle (tr[=e] k l), n. [OE. triacle a sovereign remedy, theriac, OF. triacle, F. th[ e]riaque (cf. Pr. triacla, tiriaca, Sp. & It. triaca, teriaca), L. theriaca an antidote against the bite of poisonous animals, Gr. ?, fr. ? of wild or …
