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Index 



Honey and marriage, 227, 251. (See 



Appendix.) 

 Honey and the moon, 225, 226, 231, 



345- 



Honey, as first fruits, 260 ; as food, 

 204, 222, 230, 273, 298, 299 (see 

 Appendix) ; as medicine, 84, 85, 87, 

 191, 251,252,309; as offering to the 

 dead, 277 ; as offering to the gods, 

 252; as a sacrifice, 268, 279; as a 

 terra of endearment, 281, 282. 



Honey-bear, 169. 



Honey<akes, 278, 304, 306, 307, 374. 



Honey-cakes of Nuremberg, 203. 



Honey-comb, drone-cells, 121; honey- 

 cells, 121, 142, 366 ; irregularity of 

 cells, 146; worker-cells, 121; large 

 combs, 1S8, 381 ; melting of comb, 

 166, 167. 



Honey-dew, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 

 '266. (See Appendix.) 



Honey eaten by, badgers, 169 ; bears, 

 167; birds, 170; foxes, 168; honey- 

 bear, or sloth-bear, or East Indian 

 bear, or aswail, or mellursus, 169; 

 kinjajou, 169; mouse, 169; robber- 

 bees, 150, 172, 354. 



Honeyed speech, 226, 251. 



Honeyed thigh, 70, 78. 



Honeyed vinegar, 221. 



Honeyed wine, 221, 222, 307. 



Honey-extractor, 186. 



Honey-flavor, 83. 



Honey-fly, 250, 



Honey-gathering, 79, 



Honey in Hindu mythology, honey 

 and the moon, 225, 226, 231 ; attri- 

 butes of, 226; in religious observ- 

 ances, 227 ; in marriage rite, 227 ; 

 in ceremony over new-born child, 

 227, 228 J Vedas, 225, 226, 227 ; in 

 ceremony for feeding child, 228 ; in 

 ceremony at tonsure of child's Iiead, 

 228 ; consecrating new house, 229; 

 honey made in house, 229 ; madhu- 

 parka offering, 229, 230 ; rites upon 

 sacred days, 230 ; cutting of beard, 

 230 ; in golden age, 233 ; later an- 

 cestral ceremonies, 233 j respect 



shown for, 234 ; bestows beauty, 



234- 



Honey in India, collected as tax, 234; 

 penalty for stealing, 234 ; honey- 

 gatherers to-day, 365. 



Honey-meats, 202. 



Honeymoon, 345. 



Honey-mouth, 83. 



Honey-plants (see Poisonous plants), 

 apple blossoms, 177; alder, 177; 

 balm of Pontus, 182 ; blue thistle, 

 178, 180 ; broom, 182 ; buckwheat, 

 180, 181, 182, 387 ; catnip, 181 ; 

 Cleonie Integrifolia, 178 ; clover, 



177, 178, 179) 180, 366, 367, 377, 

 389 ; cotton, 180; cucumbers, 184; 

 dandelion, 177; honey-blossom, 358; 

 honeysuckle, 178; horse-mint, 185; 

 leeks, 181 J linden or lime, 37, 152, 



178, 180; maple, 177; mangroves, 

 180 J nasturtiums, 178 ; onions, 181 ; 

 orange, 180; palmettoes, 180; rape, 

 387; raspberry, 36, 177; Rocky 

 Mountain bee-plant, 178; rosemary, 

 182; spider-plant, 178; viper's bu- 

 gloss, 178, 180; white sage, 180; 

 willow, 177, 388. 



Honey-sac, 27, 81, 82, 83, 140, 

 Honey-stomach, 26. 

 Hood, 345. 

 Hooker, 365. 

 Horace, 282, 291. 

 Hottentots, 174. 



Huber, 44, 45, 48, 50, 53, 55, 67, 

 118, 123, 134, 139, 162, 173, 362, 



363- 

 Huckleberries, 36. 

 Huish, 168, 169, 171, 386. 

 Humble-bee, 165. (See Bumble-bee.) 

 Hybla, 264, 292, 293, 294, 346, 374, 



3S3. 386- 

 Hyblffian bees, 65, 293, 294. 

 Hyblaean honey, 293. 

 Hydromel, 218, 219, 220. 

 Hyginus, 313. 

 Hymettus, 180, 182, 264, 291, 292^ 



294. 374. 375i 383- (See Mount 



Hymettus.) 



