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The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.

Related words: (words related to HONEY-BAG)

  • HONEYED
    1. Covered with honey. 2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. Milton.
  • HONEYWORT
    A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon.
  • 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.
  • HONEYWARE
    See BADDERLOCKS
  • HONEY
    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-SWEET
    Sweet as honey. Chaucer.
  • HONEY-BAG
    The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.
  • HONEYSTONE
    See MELLITE
  • RECEPTACLE
    1. That which serves, or is used, fro receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository. O sacred receptacle of my joys! Shak. The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into
  • HONEYBIRD
    The honey guide.
  • HONEYBERRY
    having sweetish berries: An Old World hackberry . In the West Indies, the genip .
  • HONEYCOMBED
    Formed or perforated like a honeycomb. Each bastion was honeycombed with casements. Motley.
  • HONEYSUCKER
    See HONEY
  • HONEYDEW
    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. 2. A kind
  • HONEYBEE
    Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee , and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered
  • HONEYSUCKLED
    Covered with honeysuckles.
  • HONEY-MOUTHED
    Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive. Shak.
  • HONEYMOON
    The first month after marriage. Addison.
  • HONEYLESS
    Destitute of honey. Shak.

 

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