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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.

der of mammals having two (rarely four) large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order.

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.

r 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, suga…

The 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.

Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation. Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice. Milton. My life, if thou preserv's my lif…

An arctic seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), having the molars serrated; -- called also crabeating seal.

ice of America. So called from the form of the ridges of enamel on the crowns of the worn molars. Also used adjectively.

A thick and viscid saccharine solution of superior quality (as sugarhouse sirup or molasses, maple sirup); specifically, in pharmacy and often in cookery, a saturated solution of sugar and water (simple sirup), or such a solution flavored or medicated. Lucent sirups tinct with cinnamon. Keats. Mixing sirup. See the Not…

A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail.

A Hindoo widow who immolates herself, or is immolated, on the funeral pile of her husband; -- so called because this act of self- immolation is regarded as envincing excellence of wifely character. [India]

The practice of self-immolation of widows in Hindostan.

A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger. [U. S.]

A kind of candy made of molasses or brown sugar boiled down and poured out in shallow pans. [Written also, in England, toffy.]

Treacle; molasses. British Pharm.

Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses.

otes to sound with rapid pulses or beats, producing a tremulous effect; -- called also tremolant, and tremulant.

Having three cusps, or points; tricuspidate; as, a tricuspid molar.

The cutting region of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part. That of a lower molar is the Tri"go*nid.