honey

[hon·ey]

Honey is the sweet, sticky substance that bees make from flower nectar. Most people like to put a little honey in their tea, but Winnie the Pooh likes to hoard it in a big pot.

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A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.

Noun
a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees

Noun
a beloved person; used as terms of endearment

Verb
sweeten with honey

Adjective S.
having the color of honey


n.
A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.

n.
That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.

n.
Sweet one; -- a term of endearment.

v. i.
To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.

v. t.
To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.


Honey

Hon"ey , n. [OE. honi, huni, AS. hunig; akin to OS. honeg, D. & G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. h'86ning, Dan. honning, cf. Gr. dust, Skr. kaa grain.] 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.
3. Sweet one; -- a term of endearment. Chaucer.
Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus.
&hand; 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 (Zo'94l.), 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 (Zo'94l.), the ratel. -- Honey bear. (Zo'94l.) See Kinkajou. -- Honey buzzard (Zo'94l.), 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 larv'91 of bees. Called also bee hawk, bee kite. -- Honey creeper (Zo'94l.), one of numerous species of small, bright, colored, passerine birds of the family C'd2rebid'91, abundant in Central and South America. -- Honey easter (Zo'94l.), one of numerous species of small passerine birds of the family Meliphagid'91, abundant in Australia and Oceania; -- called also honeysucker. -- Honey flower (Bot.), an evergreen shrub of the genus Melianthus, a native of the Cape of Good Hope. The flowers yield much honey. -- Honey guide (Zo'94l.), one of several species of small birds of the family Indicatorid'91, 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. (Zo'94l.) See Honey buzzard (above). -- Honey locust (Bot.), 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 (Zo'94l.), the ratel.

Honey

Hon"ey , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Honeyed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Honeying.] To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. "Honeying and making love." Shak.
Rough to common men, But honey at the whisper of a lord.

Honey

Hon"ey, v. t. To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
Canst thou not honey me with fluent speech?

A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.

To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.

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Usage Examples

I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

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