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(Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses. quotations examples
Well, we had our breakfast of ship's bread and molasses, washed down with cannikins of something liquid - but not lovely.
1907 February 2, The Chronicle, Adelaide, page 50, column 2
When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
(US) Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup. quotations examples
Boiled some cornstalk juice into molasses.
1777 Sept. 13, Manessah Cutler, Journal, s.v.
(figurative) Anything considered figuratively sweet, especially sweet words. quotations examples
‘You're the cutest thing here,’ whispered Clyde, hugging her fondly.‘Gee, but you can pour on the molasses, kid, when you want to,’ she called out loud.
1925, Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy, volume I, page 127
...the mournful molasses of his prose...
1972 Nov. 26, New York Times Book Review, p. 1
(Scotland, obsolete) plural of molass: whiskey made from molasses.
(Scotland, rare, obsolete) Synonym of molass: whiskey made from molasses.
(obsolete) third-person singular simple present indicative of molass: becomes drunk from molass.
(geology) plural of molasse