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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Molasses \Mo*las"ses\, n. [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 1.6 [wn]:
molasses
n : thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar
cane; especially during sugar refining
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