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TREACLE
treacle, mush, slop, glop
(noun) writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
treacle, golden syrup
(noun) a pale cane syrup
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
treacle (countable and uncountable, plural treacles)
(chiefly, British) A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup.
Cloying sentimental speech.
(Cockney rhyming slang) Sweetheart (from treacle tart).
(obsolete) An antidote for poison; theriac.
(obsolete, figurative) Any all-powerful curative; a general remedy, a cure-all.
Verb
treacle (third-person singular simple present treacles, present participle treacling, simple past and past participle treacled)
To apply treacle to a surface, so as to catch flies or moths, etc.
Anagrams
• Electra
Source: Wiktionary
Trea"cle (tre"k'l), n. Etym: [OE. triacle a sovereign remedy, theriac, OF. triacle, F. thériaque (cf. Pr. triacla, tiriaca, Sp. & It. triaca, teriaca), L. theriaca an antidote against the bite of poisonous animals, Gr. qhri`on a beast, a wild beast, dim. of qh`r a beast. Cf. Theriac.]
1. (Old Med.)
Definition: A remedy against poison. See Theriac, 1. We kill the viper, and make treacle of him. Jer. Taylor.
2. A sovereign remedy; a cure. [Obs.] Christ which is to every harm treacle. Chaucer .
3. Molasses; sometimes, specifically, the molasses which drains from the sugar-refining molds, and which is also called sugarhouse molasses.
Note: In the United States molasses is the common name; in England, treacle.
4. A saccharine fluid, consisting of the inspissated juices or decoctions of certain vegetables, as the sap of the birch, sycamore, and the like. Treacle mustard (Bot.), a name given to several species of the cruciferous genus Erysimum, especially the E. cheiranthoides, which was formerly used as an ingredient in Venice treacle, or theriac.
– Treacle water, a compound cordial prepared in different ways from a variety of ingredients, as hartshorn, roots of various plants, flowers, juices of plants, wines, etc., distilled or digested with Venice treacle. It was formerly regarded as a medicine of great virtue. Nares. Venice treacle. (Old Med.) Same as Theriac, 1.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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