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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. (more info) mellaceus

Additional info about word: 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. (more info) mellaceus honeylike, honey-sweet, mel, mellis, honey. See

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• SUGARPLUM
  A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• TREACLE
  A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1. We kill the viper, and make treacle of him. Jer. Taylor. 2. A sovereign remedy; a cure. Christ which is to every harm treacle. Chaucer 3. Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• SIRUPY; SYRUPY
  Like sirup, or partaking of its qualities. Mortimer.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• VISCID
  Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.
• SORGHUM
  A genus of grasses, properly limited to two species, Sorghum Halepense, the Arabian millet, or Johnson grass , and S. vulgare, the Indian millet . A variety of Sorghum vulgare, grown for its saccharine juice; the Chinese sugar cane.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
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• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.