Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus.
Shak.
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 (Zoˆl.), 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
(Zoˆl.), the ratel. -- Honey bear. (Zoˆl.) See Kinkajou. -- Honey
buzzard (Zoˆl.), 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 larvÊ of bees. Called
also bee hawk, bee kite. -- Honey creeper (Zoˆl.), one of numerous
species of small, bright, colored, passerine birds of the family
CúrebidÊ, abundant in Central and South America. -- Honey eater
(Zoˆl.), one of numerous species of small passerine birds of the family
MeliphagidÊ, 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 (Zoˆl.), one of several species of small birds of
the family IndicatoridÊ, 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.
(Zoˆl.) 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 (Zoˆl.), the ratel.
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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.
Tennyson.
Hon"ey, v. t. To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with,
honey.
Canst thou not honey me with fluent speech?
Marston.
Hon"ey-bag` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The receptacle for honey in a honeybee.
Shak. Grew.
Hon"ey*bee` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in
communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee
(Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee
(A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only
varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a
large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen
or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and
a number of males or drones, are produced.
Hon"ey*bird` (?), n. (Zoˆl.) The honey guide.
Hon"ey*comb` (?), n. [AS. hunigcamb. See Honey, and 1st Comb.] 1. A
mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold
their honey and their eggs.
2. Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or
of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.
Honeycomb moth (Zoˆl.), the wax moth. -- Honeycomb stomach. (Anat.) See
Reticulum.
Hon"ey*combed` (?), a. Formed or perforated like a honeycomb.
Each bastion was honeycombed with casements.
Motley.
Hon"ey*dew` (?), n. 1. A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the
leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two
substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants,
and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids.