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Honey
HON'EY, n. hun'y.
1. A sweet vegetable juice, collected by bees from the flowers of plants, and deposited in cells of the comb in hives. Honey, when pure, is of a moderate consistence, of a whitish color,tinged with yellow,sweet to the taste, of an agreeable smell, soluble in water, and becoming vinous by fermentation. In medicine, it is useful as a detergent and aperient. It is supposed to consist of sugar, mucilage, and an acid.
2. Sweetness; lusciousness.
The king hath found
Matter against him, that forever mars
The honey of his language.
3. A word of tenderness; sweetness; sweet one.
HON'EY, v.t. To talk fondly. [Little used.]
1. To sweeten.
honey appears in definitions for these words:
Aerial Alveolate Amandola Ana Aphis Bee Behoney Bolus Caprifole Cell Cherry Chian Cinnamon Civet Clover Comb Confect Conserve Cruse Drone Electuary Extract Favosite Gliadine Good Hexagon Hive Honey Honey-bag Honey-comb Honey-dew Honey-guide Honey-harvest Honey-sweet Honeyed Honeyless Honied Hydromel Instinctive Jar Limbilite Locust-tree Lote Mead Melasses Mell Mellate Melliferous Mellification Mellifluence Mellifluent Mellit Mellite Mellitic Melrose Metheglin Mildew Mill Mulse Nectary Oxymel Perceive Piment Put Rally Rob Sherbet Sincere Swarm Sweet Taste That Theriac Thickness Thinness Treasure Trochil Trumpet-flower Turpentine White-clover Wild Wild-honey Witty Wood-bind Wood-bine
Aerial Alveolate Amandola Ana Aphis Bee Behoney Bolus Caprifole Cell Cherry Chian Cinnamon Civet Clover Comb Confect Conserve Cruse Drone Electuary Extract Favosite Gliadine Good Hexagon Hive Honey Honey-bag Honey-comb Honey-dew Honey-guide Honey-harvest Honey-sweet Honeyed Honeyless Honied Hydromel Instinctive Jar Limbilite Locust-tree Lote Mead Melasses Mell Mellate Melliferous Mellification Mellifluence Mellifluent Mellit Mellite Mellitic Melrose Metheglin Mildew Mill Mulse Nectary Oxymel Perceive Piment Put Rally Rob Sherbet Sincere Swarm Sweet Taste That Theriac Thickness Thinness Treasure Trochil Trumpet-flower Turpentine White-clover Wild Wild-honey Witty Wood-bind Wood-bine
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