Word Meanings - HONEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. håning, Dan. honning, 1. A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. 2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. The

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G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. håning, Dan. honning, 1. A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. 2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. The honey of his language. Shak. 3. Sweet one; -- a term of endearment. Chaucer. Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus. Shak. Note: Honey is often used adjectively or as the first part of compound; as, honeydew or honey dew; honey guide or honeyguide; honey locust or honey-locust. Honey ant , a small ant (Myrmecocystus melliger), found in the Southwestern United States, and in Mexico, living in subterranean formicares. There are larger and smaller ordinary workers, and others, which serve as receptacles or cells for the storage of honey, their abdomens becoming distended to the size of a currant. These, in times of scarcity, regurgitate the honey and feed the rest. -- Honey badger , the ratel. -- Honey bear. See Kinkajou. -- Honey buzzard , a bird related to the kites, of the genus Pernis. The European species is P. apivorus; the Indian or crested honey buzzard is P. ptilorhyncha. They feed upon honey and the larvæ of bees. Called also bee hawk, bee kite. -- Honey creeper , one of numerous species of small, bright, colored, passerine birds of the family Coerebidæ, abundant in Central and South America. -- Honey easter , one of numerous species of small passerine birds of the family Meliphagidæ, abundant in Australia and Oceania; - - called also honeysucker. -- Honey flower , an evergreen shrub of the genus Melianthus, a native of the Cape of Good Hope. The flowers yield much honey. -- Honey guide , one of several species of small birds of the family Indicatoridæ, inhabiting Africa and the East Indies. They have the habit of leading persons to the nests to wild bees. Called also honeybird, and indicator. -- Honey harvest, the gathering of honey from hives, or the honey which is gathered. Dryden. -- Honey kite. See Honey buzzard . -- Honey locust , a North American tree (Gleditschia triacanthos), armed with thorns, and having long pods with a sweet pulp between the seeds. -- Honey month. Same as Honeymoon. -- Honey weasel , the ratel.

Related words: (words related to HONEY)

• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• SWEETLY
  In a sweet manner.
• SWEETISH
  Somewhat sweet. -- Sweet"ish*ness, n.
• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• HONEYED
  1. Covered with honey. 2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. Milton.
• SWEETING
  1. A sweet apple. Ascham. 2. A darling; -- a word of endearment. Shak.
• SWEETHEART
  A lover of mistress.
• HONEYWORT
  A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon.
• SWEETROOT
  Licorice.
• HONEYSUCKLE
  One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds;
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• VISCID
  Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.
• SWEETENING
  1. The act of making sweet. 2. That which sweetens.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• DEPOSITARY
  One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent. (more info) 1. One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. I . . . made you my guardians,
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• HONEYWARE
  See BADDERLOCKS
• MISRECOLLECT
  To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects. Hitchcock.