DCHP-1 Online
molasses Obsolescent 
n. a syrup made from the sap of certain maple trees, especially the sugar maple.
See also: maple syrup
- 1834 (1926) "I might indeed collect a keg of the molasses of the maple sugar, and having flavoured it with wild herbs, I might make honey such as my father loveth, but I am afraid my father would detect the cheat."
- 1863 The dark amber-coloured molasses had stood and settled for some days in deep wooden troughs, before his other avocations . . . allowed him to come up to the Cedars and give the finishing touch.
- 1926 The scented forest . . . the new basswood troughs, and cedar spiles, the great fires and steaming kettles, the hot-brown sap, the "black-man" and molasses--they haunt an old man's memory still. . . .
- 1834 (1926) "I might indeed collect a keg of the molasses of the maple sugar, and having flavoured it with wild herbs, I might make honey such as my father loveth, but I am afraid my father would detect the cheat."