noun

• A thick, sweet syrup drained from sugarcane, especially (Canada, US) the still thicker and sweeter syrup produced by boiling down raw molasses.
• (US) Any similarly thick and sweet syrup produced by boiling down fruit juices, tree saps, etc., especially concentrated maple syrup.
• (figurative) Anything considered figuratively sweet, especially sweet words.
• (Scotland, rare, obsolete) Synonym of molass: whiskey made from molasses.