Definition of Bagass

1. bagasse [n -ES] - See also: bagasse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bagass

bag of bones
bag of fruit
bag of rations
bag of tricks
bag of waters
bag of wind
bag of words
bag out
bag valve mask
bag valve masks
bagaceratopsid
bagaceratopsids
bagarre
bagarres
bagascosis
bagatelle
bagatelles
bagboy
bagboys
bagel
bagels
bagful
bagfuls
baggable

Literary usage of Bagass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Island of Cuba by Alexander von Humboldt, John S. Thrasher (1856)
"... cane hasnot degenerated —Want of fuel—Application of bagass—Wood and bagass compared—Experiments and inventions—Suggested by the author's residence at ..."

2. Chemical Technology: Or, Chemistry, Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures by Friedrich Knapp, Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson (1851)
"bagass the fuel of the Colonies.—The sugar-cane is not only the source of sugar ... The bagass is for this reason of the greatest importance in the colonial ..."

3. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1849)
"The apparatus for preparing the " bagass" consists of a cart, supported on a ... As the cart is drawn over the bagass strewed on the ground around the mill, ..."

4. Debow's Review, Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial Progress and Resources by R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell, James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1848)
"Here we plant and make sugar the whole year, and six months after my expressed canes are carried under my bagass shed, I have far better ..."

5. A Manual of Sugar Analysis: Including the Applications in General of by J. H. Tucker (1890)
"... bagass.—Two hundred grammes are reduced to as fine a state of division as possible, mixed well with boiling water, placed in a small filtering-bag, ..."

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