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megass en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /məˈɡɑːs/
• /məˈɡæs/

Etymology

Attested since about 1840 in American English, a modification of bagasse.

Meanings

1. (archaic, uncountable) Bagasse.
   • The megass was then gathered together, and suffered to steep in water so hot, that the hand can be borne in it without inconvenience, and after a while the megass was reground : the canes yielded two pans of liquor, and the megass one; […] 1846, Simmonds Colonial Magazine and Foreign Miscellany (Peter Lund Simmonds, William Henry Giles Kingston), page 119