molass

molassnoun詞源 2

• 1

  A viscous byproduct of sugar production, raw molasses. Singular of molasses.

  • After a little time the molass is run out through an outlet made in the lower part of the apparatus.
  • Northbound molass quantities that were conveyed through the Suez Canal amounted this year to 2 075 000 tons, against 1 950 000 tons in 1993, registering an increase of 125 000 tons, equal to 6.4%.
• 2

  A sweet hard candy made from molasses.

  • "Perhaps you're right,” said Sudhama, “but give me please a handful of puffed rice and a piece of molass.”
  • Yet that was not the first molass stick I had tasted, for my mother had bought me molass sticks before.
• 3

  Cheap whiskey made from molasses.

  • From peuking with porter no thirst can ensue, Not so, my dear knights, fares the ignorant ass Who drinks all the evening at burning molass.
  • The only guid molass has dune, Some drouthie wives it's sent hame soon; Which gars their dearies canty croon, The praise o' sugar whisky, O!

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• molasse