From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Molasses \Mo*las"ses\, noun [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}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "molasses": adherent, adhesive, albumen, ambrosia, artificial sweetener, barnacle, batter, blackstrap, bonnyclabber, bramble, brier, bulldog, burr, butter, calcium cyclamate, cane syrup, cement, clabber, clover honey, comb honey, corn syrup, cornstarch, cream, curd, cyclamates, decal, decalcomania, dough, edulcoration, egg white, gaum, gel, gelatin, glair, glop, glue, gluten, goo, gook, goop, gruel, gumbo, gunk, honey, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot, jam, jell, jelly, leech, limpet, loblolly, maple syrup, mucilage, mucus, nectar, pap, paste, plaster, porridge, prickle, pudding, pulp, puree, putty, remora, rob, saccharification, saccharin, semifluid, semiliquid, size, sodium cyclamate, sorghum, soup, starch, sticker, sticky mess, sugar, sugar-making, sugaring off, sweetener, sweetening, sweets, syrup, thorn, treacle
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