honesty 
I cannot now. in hnni-st/i, but frankly tell yon. that many 
of these flies I have named, at least BO made as we make 
them here, will pel-adventure do you no great service in 
your southern rivers. Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 2tM. 
A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair. 
Honesty shines with great advantage there. 
Coutper, Hope, 1. 402. 
Specifically (a) Chastity; virtuous reputation ; honor. 
And also thynketh on myn honexte 
That floureth yet, how foule I sholde it shende. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 157. 
she said her honesty was all her dowry. 
Fletcher and Jioirley, Maid in the Mill, iii. 3. 
(6) The virtue of respecting the property rights of others ; 
the absence of any disposition to cheat, steal, or lie. 
Villon, who had not the courage to be poor with hon- 
extii, now whiningly implores our sympathy, now shows his 
teeth . . . with an ugly snarl. 
R. L. Stevenson, Villon, Poet and Housebreaker. 
2f. Decency; good manners. 
For honestee 
No vtleyns word as yet to hym spak he. 
Chaucer, Prol. to Friar's Tale, 1. 
8. 
Alas, alas ! 
It Is not honesty in me to speak 
What 1 have seen and known. 
Shak., Othello, iv. 1. 
3t. Liberality. 
A noble gentleman 'tis, if he would not keep so good a 
house. . . . Every man has his fault, and honesty is his. 
Shak.,T. of A,, iii. 1. 
4f. Credit; reputation. 
When Sir Thos. More was at the place of execution, he 
said to the hangman, "1 promise thee that thou shall 
never have honestie in the stryking of my head, my necke 
is so short," Hall, Chron., p. 226. 
I beseech you to remember me when you talk with your 
good God, that he may give me the strength of his Spirit, 
that I manfully yielding my life for his truth may do you 
some honesty, who have put me into his service. 
J. Careless, in Bradford's Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 4Ot>. 
5. In bot., a name of several plants, especially 
of a small cruciferous plant, Lunnria aiinua 
(L. biennis): so called from the transparency 
of its dissepiments. The perennial honesty 
is L. redivira; the maiden's-honesty is Clema- 
tis ntalba.=Syn. 1. Honesty, Honor, Integrity, Pro- 
bity. Rectitude, Uprightness ; equity, trustworthiness, 
trustiness, fidelity, fairness, candor, veracity, plain-deal- 
ing; frankness. The first six words apply primarily to the 
spirit of the pel-son, and by extension to conduct, etc. They 
may be negative or positive, expressing the spirit or the 
act of refraining or of doing. Honesty belongs to the ab- 
solute principle of right; honor, on the other hand, be- 
longs to accepted standards of what is due to others or 
to one's self. Conformity to an exalted standard of honor 
is more creditable and illustrious than simple honesty. In 
earlier usage honest and honesty retained much of their 
Latin significance of honorable and honorableness in the ob- 
jective sense. (See Rom. xii. 17.) Integrity means sound- 
ness, and is used with especial reference to trusts (as, a 
man of strict business integrity), but it may consider a per- 
son as inspected and found whole by others or by himself. 
Probity is tested honesty, tried and proved integrity. Rec- 
titude and uprightness drawtheir meanings from the idea 
of standing up straight, and hence matching the standard 
of right, but uprightness is more manifestly connected 
with this idea, and hence, as well as on account of its na- 
tive origin, is much the more vigorous of the two. See 
justice. 
"Honesty is the best policy," but he who acts on that 
principle is not an honest man. Whately. 
The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature 
that it is only to be met with in minds which are natural- 
ly noble, or in such as have been cultivated by great ex- 
amples, or a refined education. 
Addieon, Guardian, No. 161. 
He [Savage] had not sufficient resolution to sacrifice the 
pleasure of affluence to that of integrity. Johnson. 
Of commercial fame, but more 
Famed for thy probity from shore to shore. 
Coieper, In Memory of John Thornton. 
The command of the political ruler is at first obeyed, 
not because of its perceived rectitude, but simply because 
it is his command, which there will be a penalty for dis- 
obeying. //. Spencer, Data of Ethics, 44. 
I know also, my God, that thou . . . hast pleasure in 
uprightness. 1 Chron. xxix. 17. 
honewort (hon'wert), n. [< hone* + worft."] A 
name applied to several umbelliferous plants, 
as Sison Ainomnni, the stone-parsley, Trinia vul- 
garis, and Cryptota-nitt Canadensis: so named 
because formerly used to cure the swelling 
called a hone. 
honey (hun'i), n. and n. [Early mod. E. also 
liony, hoiiie; < ME. hony, huny, hum, ftunij, < AS. 
hiinig = OS.honeg, haniy = OFries. hunig = M.D. 
honig, honing, D. *(</ = MLG. hounich, L.G. hon- 
nig = OHG. hoitag, honang, MHG. honec, htinic, 
Q. honig = Icel. hunang = Sw. honung, honing = 
Dan. honning, honey; root unknown. The Goth, 
word is different, ntilith = Gr. /j&.t (/IC^.IT-) = L. 
tnel, etc.: see mildew, mell 2 .] I. . 1. A sweet 
viscid fluid collected from the nectaries of 
flowers and elaborated for food by several 
kinds of insects, especially by the honey-bee, 
A+iis niflliflea. It is deposited by the honey-bee in the 
cells of the honeycomb. Honey, when pure, is of a whitish 
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color tinged with yellow, of a spicy sweetness and an agree 
able smell ; it is soluble in water, and becomes vinous by 
fermentation. It is essentially a solution of dextrose and 
levulose with volatile oils and occasionally cane-sugar. 
Bees often fill their cells with other substances than the 
nectar of flowers, as molasses, honeydew, or the juices of 
fruits, but the product is not true honey. 
Thy mete shall be mylk, honye, & wyne ; 
Now. dere soule, latt us go dyne. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Fumivall), p. 157. 
The yellow-banded bees . . . 
Fed thee, a child, lying alone. 
With whitest honey in fairy gardens cull'd. 
Tennyson, Eleanore. 
2. Figuratively, sweetness or charm. 
I, of ladies most deject and wretched, 
That suck'd the honey of his music vows. 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 1. 
Come, Henley's oratory, Osborne's wit ! 
The honey dropping from Favonio's tongue. 
Pope, Epil. to Satires, L 67. 
3. Sweet one; darling: a trivial word of en- 
dearment. 
Mi hony. mi lint, al hoi thou me makest 
With i iii kinde cumfort of alle mi kares kold. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. 8.), L 1666. 
O she was fair. O dear ! she was bonnie, 
A ship's captain courted her to be his honey. 
Bonnie Annie (Child's Ballads, III. 47). 
"Come to ole Candace I . . . Honey, darlin', ye a'nt 
i-ight dar's a drelful mistake somewhar'." 
H. B. Stom, Minister's Wooing, xxiii. 
Clarified honey, honey melted in a water- bath and freed 
from scum. Honey of borax, clarified honey and borax, 
applied to the mouth as a remedy in aphthous affections. 
Unripe honey, honey from which the water has not been 
sufficiently evaporated. Phin, Diet. Apiculture, p. 73. 
Virgin honey, honey that flows spontaneously from the 
conn) when the cells are uncapped. Wild honey, honey 
made by wild bees, or bees not kept by man. 
John was clothed with camel's hair ; . . . and he did eat 
locusts and /'-.// honey. Mark i. 6. 
U. (i. Having the nature of honey ; sweet ; 
luscious. 
I'n'ii. He speaks not like a man of God's making. 
Ann. That's all one, my fair, sweet, honey monarch. 
Skat., L. L. L., v. 2. 
honey (hun'i), r. ; pret. and pp. honeyed (also 
honied), ppr. honeying. [< honey, .] I. trans. 
1. To coyer with or as with honey; sweeten ; 
make delicious: as, "honeyed lines of rhyme," 
Byron. 2. To talk sweetly to; coax; flatter. 
Can'st thou not huney me with fluent speech, 
And even adore my topless vilany? 
Marston, Antonio and Mellida, iv. 
II. intranx. To become sweet ; be or become 
complimentary or tender; use endearments; 
talk fondly. [Rare.] 
Honeying and making love. Shot., Hamlet, iii. 4. 
honey-ant (hun'i-ant), . An ant of the genus 
Myrmecocystus, as M. inexicanus or if. melliger, 
of southwestern North America. The latter is 
found at an elevation of from 6,000 to 7,500 feet. In 
one form of the workers the abdomen is found in summer 
distended with honey to the size of a pea or a small grape, 
and appears pellucid. Later in the season, when food is 
scarce, these animated stores of honey are devoured by 
the other ants, and they are also dug up and eaten by the 
inhabitants of the country. See honey-bearer. 
The honey-antt are a nocturnal species. 
R. A. Proctor, Nature Studies, p. 24. 
honey-badger (hun'i-baj'er), w. The ratel, 
Mellit'ora ratellus: so called from its fondness 
for honey. 
honey-bag (hun'i-bag), . An enlargement of 
the alimentary canal of the bee in which it 
carries its load of honey. This enlargement is In the 
esophagus or gullet, and corresponds to the sucking-sto- 
mach or crop of other Hymennptera and of Lepideptera 
and Diptera. In it the bee stores the honey gathered from 
flowers, which it disgorges into the cells of the honeycomb. 
Also called honey-stomach. 
And, good monsieur, have a care the honey-bag break 
not; I would be loth to have you over-flown with a 
honey-baa, signior. Shale., M. N. D., Iv. 1. 
honey-balm (hun'i-bam), w. A European labi- 
ate plant, MeUttis melissophyllum. 
honey-basket (hun'i-bas'ket), n. In entom., 
the corbiculum or structure on the legs of bees 
in which pollen mingled with honey is conveyed 
to the hive. See cut under corbiculum. 
honey-bear (hun'i-bar), K. 1. An East Indian 
bear, Mellursus or Prochilus labiatus; the sloth- 
bear or aswail. See cut under aswail. 2. The 
kinkajou, Cercoleptes caiidivolvulus. See cut un- 
der kinkajou. 
honey-bearer (hun'i-bar"er), n. One of the 
honey-ants whose office it is to receive and 
carry in its abdomen the honey which has been 
gathered by the workers. 
The workers take it [the honey] home with them and 
give it to the honey-bearers, who swallow ... it, ... keep 
it in their crops ready for use, exactly as bees keep it in 
cells. . . . The honey-bearers, in short, have been con- 
honeycomb 
Honey-ttearer (Myrmecofysttit ntflHffr}, with distended abdomen. 
{ I -ine shows natural size. ) 
verted into living honey-jars. When the workers are 
hungry they caress a honey-bearer and . . . sip it [the 
honey] from her throat. 
R. A. Proctor, Nature Studies, p. 24. 
honey-bee (hun'i-be), n. A bee that collects 
and stores honey; specifically, the hive-bee, 
Apis mellifica. See cuts Tinder liff. 
So work the honey-bees ; 
Creatures that, by a rule in nature, teach 
The art of order to a peopled kingdom. 
Shot., Hen. V., i. 2. 
honeyberry (hun'i-ber"i), n ; pi. honeyberries 
(-iz). 1. The berry of Celtis austral i.-: '2. The 
berry of Melicocca byuga. 
honey-bird (hun'i-berd), n. 1. A bird which 
feeds on the sweets of flowers ; one of the A'ec- 
tariniidceor Meliphagidce; a honey-sucker. 2. 
Same as honey-gu ide. 3. A bee. Duvies. [Bare.] 
The world have but one God, Heav'n but one Sun, 
Quails but one Chief, the Honey-birds but One, 
One Master-Bee. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Captaines. 
honey-blob (hun'i-blob), n. The gooseberry. 
[Scotch.] 
He saw out of the coach-window a woman selling the 
sweet yellow gooseberries, . . . and he cried, "Gie me a 
ha'porth of honeyblobs. " 
E. B. Itammy, Scottish Life and Character, p. 254. 
honey-bloom (hun'i-blom), w. The spreading 
dog"s-bane or Indian hemp, Apocynum andro- 
nfFinifoliiim, a common American plant. 
honey-bread (hun'i-bred), . A small legumi- 
nous tree, Ceratonia Siliqua, a native of the 
Mediterranean region. Also called St. John's 
bread. See cut under Ceratonia. 
honey-brown (hun'i-broun), n. In entom., a 
pale-yellowish and generally somewhat trans- 
lucent brown. 
honey-buzzard (hun'i-buz'ard), n. A bird of 
prey of the genus Pernis, subfamily fiuteanince, 
and family Falconidte ; a pern . The common Euro- 
pean species, P. apieorus, is also found in Africa. It does 
not eat honey, but breaks into the nests of bees and wasps 
to get at their larvae. 
honey-cell (hun'i-sel), . A cell in a honey- 
comb. 
His [Emerson s] laconic phrases are the honey-cells of 
thought. E. C. Stedman, Poets of America, p. 172. 
honeycomb (hun'i-kom), . [< ME. honycomb, 
hunycomb, hoiiycoom, huity-camb, < AS. hunig- 
camb, < hunig, honey, + camb, comb. The name 
is not found outside of E. ; other words for 
'honeycomb' are D. honigzeent = Icel. limianyx- 
seimr, lit. 'honey-string'; Sw. honungskaka = 
Dan. honningkage, lit. 'honey-cake'; G. Iwniii- 
scheibe, lit. ' honey-shive,' or honig-wabe, lit. 
' honey-cake,' bienen-wabe, lit. ' bee-cake,' or 
simply vabe , lit. ' cake ' or ' wafer,' or ' waffle ' : 
see wafer, waffle. The L. term was farus (see 
far us); the Gr., fiefa/n/pir, or /ie?uKr/ptov.'] 1. A 
structure of wax of a firm texture, consisting 
of hexagonal cells with concave bottoms ranged 
side by side, formed by bees for the reception 
of honey and of their eggs. 
And they gave him a piece of a broiled flsh, and of an 
honeycomb. Luke xxiv. 42. 
I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey. Cant. v. 1. 
And well his words became him : was he not 
A full-cell'd honeycomb of eloquence 
Stored from all flowers ? Tennyson, Edwin Morris. 
2f. Sweet one ; darling : a trivial term of en- 
dearment. Compare honey, 3. 
What do ye, hony comb, sweete Alisoun? 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 512. 
3. Any substance, as a casting of iron, etc., 
having cells like those of a honeycomb. 
A scratch or spot of honey-comb in the grooves renders 
the rifle completely useless for match-shooting. 
H'. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 14. 
Specifically 4. In mammal., the reticulum or 
second stomach of a ruminant. See cut under 
ruminant. Honeycomb bottom, same as hawse-pip? 
bottom (which see, under hawse-pipe). Honeycomb dec- 
oration, in ctram., a name given to the Mayflower dec- 
oration, from the resemblance of the crowded blossoms 
to a honeycomb. Honeycomb moth, a tineid moth of 
the genus Galeria, which infests beehives, depositing its 
eggs in the comb, where the larvre are developed and 
undergo their transformations. G. ceranea or nttllonella. 
