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e cooler, and placing it in hogsheads, etc., having perforated heads, through which the molasses drains off. B. Edwards.

The lower classes; beggars. "The Italian proletariate." J. A. Symonds.

perty; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.

e. It includes the dragon flies, May flies, white ants, etc. By some zoölogists they are classed with the Orthoptera; by others, with the Neuroptera.

The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar.

A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet.

Arranged systematically, or according to classes or subjects; as, a catalogue raisonné. See under Catalogue.

A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications a subject or scheme.

An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.

The poorer and lower classes of people.[Obs.] The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities T. Jackson.

d terms adapted to use in computation; as, to reduce animals or vegetables to a class or classes; to reduce a series of observations in astronomy; to reduce language to rules.

ind of cigar of large size and superior quality; also, the size in which such cigars are classed.

A riotous fellow; a roaring boy. A lady to turn roarer, and break glasses. Massinger.

A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them. W. Savage.

nchangeable form. Foxe. A system . . . according to which the thoughts of men were to be classed and rubricated forever after. Hare.

distilled from cane juice, or from the scumming of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations. Also, sometimes used colloquially as a generic or a collective name for intoxicating liquor. Rum bud, a grog blossom. [Colloq.] -- Rum shrub, a drink composed of rum, water, sugar,…

he act, process or method of determining the amount and kind of sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by the employment of polarizing apparatus.

o the extreme republican party, who rejected breeches as an emblem peculiar to the upper classes or aristocracy, and adopted pantaloons.

t afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.

hurch or religious communion on account of a difference of opinion. "They were popularly classed together as canting schismatics." Macaulay.