Definition of "molass"
molass1
noun
plural molasses
Quotations
molass2
noun
plural molasses
(Scotland) Cheap whiskey made from molasses.
Quotations
Whiskey extracted from malt does not answer the purpose of making up compounds, cordials, and imitating foreign liquors so well as that extracted from sugar, molasses, raisins and cyder, as it has a particular flavour of its own, which nothing will overcome but a superabundance of the tincture of seeds, herbs, roots, spices, &c., that may be infused into it, which superabundance would make the flavour of the ingredients too strong, and, of course, disagreeable and harsh; wheras, if sugar, molass, raisin or cyder spirit, termed silent whiskey or whiskey without any particular of its own, were used, the flavour of the ingredients could be regulated according to taste without any difficulty.
1908, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, “Royal Commission on Whiskey and Other Potable Spirits”, in Parliamentary Papers: 1850-1908, volume 58, page 240