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

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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

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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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