honeycomb 
about an inch long, and If. iilmtrin, about half an inch, arc 
perhaps the worst enemies of the bee. See cut under '>'''- 
moth. Honeycomb sponge, the [miss-sponge.- -Hon- 
eycomb stitch, a stitch used in producing gathers, as in 
the stiff material nsed for smock-frocks and the like, the re- 
sult being a pattern of lozenges covering the whole surface, 
held at their intersections by loops of thread, usually of a 
different color from that of the material. Honeycomb 
tripe, the part of tripe which is honeycombed or divided 
into numerous small cells. It is the second stomach of 
a ruminant, or second part of the cardiac division of the 
whole stomach, next to the paunch proper or rumen, and 
is technically called the rcticulnm. See cut under ruuit- 
,/ i HI. Honeycomb work.a name given to ancient rep- 
resentations of armor of a flexible character, as the hau- 
berk or broigne. They show a series of open hexagons, 
separated by a slender bar or ridge, or sometimes openings 
more nearly approaching the form of circles. They may 
be assumed to represent indifferently chain-mail or a gar- 
ment of fence made by sewing rings or small plates of 
metal on leather or linen. 
honeycomb (hun'i-kom), r. t. [< honeycomb, 
.] To fill with cells or holes, as wood or earth, 
by perforation or excavation, in the manner of 
a honeycomb. 
The rock itself over which the fort was raised is honey- 
combed with excavated passages for infantry and cavalry. 
J. A. Symonds, Italy and Oreece, p. 180. 
There is the insignificant-looking wonn, the " jengen," 
which insidiously honeycombs the poles. 
gleet. Kef. (Amer.), II. 7. 
honeycombed (hun'i-komd), . 1. Perforated 
or excavated like a honeycomb; specifically, 
having little cells, as cast metal when not solid. 
This geyser presents a shallow basin, with rather ill- 
deflned margin, formed of thin plates of honeycombed gey- 
serite. Science, IV. 22. 
2. Decorated with a honeycomb pattern 
either the Mayflower pattern or one of hexa- 
gons. 
honeycombing (hnn'i-ko-ming), n. [Verbal 
n. of honeycomb, t'.] An ornamental pattern 
produced in thin material by running stitches 
diagonally across the fabric, and drawing up 
these threads so that the lozenge-shaped spaces 
between them shall be puffed and in relief; 
smocking. 
honey-creeper (hun'i-kre"per), n. Any bird of 
the American family Ccerebkhe or Ducnididce; 
a guitguit. The species are quite numerous; 
one, Certhiola bahamensa, occurs in the United 
States. See cut under Ccerebinat. 
honey-crock (hun'i-krok), . A crock or pot of 
honey. 
Like foolish Hies about an hom/-crocke. 
Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 83. 
honeydew (hun'i-dii), . [= D. honigdaauw = 
G. honiifthau = Dan. honniiigdiig (cf. Sw. ho- 
n ungsdagg) ; as honey + dew. Cf. honey-roro 
and mildew.~\ 1. A saccharine substance found 
on the leaves of trees and other plants in small 
drops like dew. There are two kinds, one secreted 
from the plants, and the other by plant-lice, bark-lice, 
and leaf-hoppers. Bees and ants are said to be fond of 
honeydew. The name is properly applied to the sugary 
secretion from the leaves of plants, occurring most fre- 
quently in hot weather. It usually appears as small glis- 
tening drops, but if particularly abundant may drip from 
the leaves in considerable quantity, when it has been 
called manna. The manna-ash, Fraxiting Ornus, exhibits 
this phenomenon, as does Carduus arctinides. 
For he on honey-dew hath fed, 
And drunk the milk of Paradise. 
Coleridge, Kubla Khan. 
Although further and thorough investigation is neces- 
sary to establish the fact, this will be the final solution 
that the honey-dew is largely the product of the Pulvina- 
ria, the sap being by it extracted from the tree, and elabo- 
rated by the insect organism into this sweet substance, as 
is a similar or perhaps identical substance by some of the 
Aphides, and honey by the honey-bee. Science, III. 737. 
2. A kind of chewing-tobacco prepared with 
molasses. [Trade-name.] 
honeydewed (huu'i-dud), a. [< honeydeir + 
-rd2. ] Covered with honeydew. 
Three accounts have been published in Eastern Prussia 
of white and white-spotted horses being greatly injured by 
eating mildewed and hoiwifdeuvd vetches. 
Darwin, Var. of Animals and Plants, p. 331. 
honey-eater (hun'i-e"ter), n. One who or that 
which eats honey. Specifically (a) Any bird of the 
family Meliphnyidte ; a honey-sucker. (l>) A honey-bear. 
honeyed (hun'id), /). a. [Also honied; < IKIIK-I/ 
+ -erf 2 .] 1. Covered with, abounding in, or 
as sweet as honey. 
Fair was the day, the honeyed beanfleld's scent 
The west wind bore unto him. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 879. 
Hence 2. Sweet; dulcet; soothing; mollify- 
ing: as, honeyed words. 
When he speaks, 
The air, a chartered libertine, is still, 
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, 
To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences. 
Shak., Hen. V., i. i. 
The honeyed breath of praise. 0. W. llolmei, Agnes, 
2873 
honeysuckle 
honeyedneSS (hun'id-nes), H. Sweetness; al- honey-roret, lloneyd<-w. .V/rx. 
lurement. He on a sudden felt loves honca-rot-i' 
So;ik in, and wonted flames to heat his heart. 
And to o'respread his bones and every part. 
I'mir*. tr. of Virgil (1632). 
honey-flower (lnm'i-flou"er), . A plant of 
the genus Mi-linntliHS, ornamental shrubs from 
the Cape of Good Hope, the flowers of which 
yield much honey. 
honey-flyt, " A honey-l 
Up. up. ye princes! prince and people, rise, 
And run to schoole among the hony-fliex. 
Dit Barttl* (trans.). 
honeyfugle (hun'i-fu'gl), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
lioiicyfuylcd, ppr. lioiii'i/fii(/linf/. [< honey + 
"fugle, of no appar. origin, and prob. a mere 
addition.] To cajole; wheedle. [Slang, south- 
ern and western U. S.] 
honey-garlic (hun'i-gar'lik), . A plant of 
the genus \cctaroscordum, natural order Lili- 
acece, placed by Bentham and Hooker under 
Allium. jr. siculum (the Allium nculum of authors) is 
a native of Sicily. It has a slender flower-scape 3 or 4 feet 
high, with a cluster of long, pendulous green or purplish 
flowers having honey-pores. 
honey-guide (huu'i-gld), n. A non-passerine 
African bird of the family Indicatoridai, sup- 
posed to guide the honey-hunters to their spoil ; 
an indicator. Also called honey-bird. 
honeyless (hun'i-les), . [< honey + -tow.] 
Destitute of honey. 
But for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, 
And leave them honeyless. Shak., J. C., v. 1. 
honey-locust (hun'i-16"kust), n. An orna- 
mental North American tree, Gleditschia tria- 
canthos. The water honey-locust is O. monotftrina, also 
an American tree, growing from Illinois southward. The 
name is sometimes given to the mesquit, Prowpin jult- 
jlora, a native of the southwestern United States. 
At sunset he stood under the Iwney-locmt tree on the 
levee, where he was wont to find his father waiting for 
him. 0. W. Cable, The Century, XXXV. 560. 
honey-lotus (hun'i-16'tus), n. A name some- 
times given to Melilotus alba, the white melilot 
or sweet clover, a widely distributed European 
plant thoroughly naturalized in America. 
honey-mesquit (hun'i-mes-ket"), " The alga- 
roba or mesquit, Prosopis juliflora, a small tree 
of the southwestern United States. Also called 
homy-pod and sometimes honey-locust. 
honeymontht(hun'i-mnuth), n. Same as honey- 
moon. [Rare.] 
Sometimes the parties fly asunder even in the midst of 
courtship, and sometimes grow cool in the very honey- 
month. Taller, No. 192. 
honeymoon (hun'i-mon), H. [< honey + moon, 
month.' Cf. honeymonth.~] 1. The first month 
after marriage; the interval, of whatever 
length, commonly spent by a newly married 
couple in traveling, visiting, or other recrea- 
tion, before settling down to their ordinary oc- 
cupations. 
I was more than once nearly choked with gall during 
the honenmoon, and had lost all comfort in life before my 
friends had done wishing me joy. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, i. -2. 
Hence 2f. A time of prosperity or enjoyment ; 
an occasion of advantage. 
I was there entertained as well by the great friends my 
father made, as by mine owne forwardnesse, where, it be- 
ing now but honey-tnoone, I endeavoured to court it. 
Lyly, F.uphues. 
honeymoon (hun'i-mon), v. i. [< honeymoon, 
.] To keep one's honeymoon; take a wed- 
ding-trip. 
So do not I, dear, till I have found some decent sort 
of body to hotieymoon along with me. 
Trollope, Dr. Thome, iv. 
As soon as I can get his discharge, and he has done 
honeymooning, we shall start. 
T. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, xlvii. 
honey-moth (huu'i-moth), . A European 
pyralid moth, Aehrtea grinellti, which lives in the 
hives of tlie honey-bee. 
honey-mouthed (hun'i-moutht), . Soft or 
sweet in speech. 
If I prove kowy-mouth'd, let my tongue blister. 
Shale., W. T., ii. 2. 
honey-pod (hun'i-pod), . Same as honey-mes- 
quit. 
honey-pot (hun'i-pot), n. A receptacle of va- 
rious kinds, made of wax or other substance, 
and often of considerable size, in which many 
species of wild bees store their honey. 
honey-pots (hun'i-pots), H. pi. A boys' game 
in which the players roll themselves up and 
are then pretended to be carried to market by 
others as honey, the amusement consisting in 
the difficulty of continuing in the required po- 
sition, llii/lhci'll. 
honey-ratel (hun'i-ra"tel), . Same as j 
lindi/cr. J. (Jr. 11'ixnl. 
honey-Stalk (hun'i-stak), n. A sweet species 
of clover, upon which cattle are apt to overfeed. 
With words more sweet, and yet more dangerous, 
Than baits to fish, or lioitrif-xtiM* to sheep. 
Shalt.. Tit. And., iv. 4. 
honey-Stomach (Imn'i-stum'uk), . iSame as 
honey-bag. 
honeystone (hun'i-ston), . Same as ieUit< . 
honey-strainer (hun'i-stra''uer), H. A machine 
in which honeycomb, after a thin slice has been 
cut off to open the cells, is placed, and revolved 
rapidly, to extract the honey by centrifugal 
force. The empty comb is replaced in the hive 
to be refilled. 
honey-SUCker (hun'i-suk"er), n. A bird that 
sucks the sweets of flowers ; a honey-eater or 
honey-bird ; a nectar-bird : specifically applied 
Honey-sucker {Cartba taerulea). 
to the Meliphagida 1 , and less technically to sun- 
dry other small, chiefly slender-billed, birds, as 
the Nectarinwhe, I'aerebidte, etc. 
honeysuckle (hun'i-suk"l), n. [< ME. liony- 
Kocle, huiiiKUCcle (the alleged AS. "hvnigsucle 
is due to a mistake), a dim. form of the more 
common ME. honysonke, < AS. hntiisuce, huni- 
sitge, hunigsitge, < hiinig, honey, 4- sucan,siigan, 
suck: see honey and suck. The name was ap- 
plied to various plants, the ME. forms being 
variously glossed ligiintruM (privet), locuxta 
(for Kgnxtrum f ), cerifoliitin (chervil), serpillum 
(wild thyme), apimjo (which elsewhere glosses 
AS. beowyrt, ' bee-wort,' and MHG. biiisnge, 
bincsaug, as if 'bee-suck'); the AS. forms are 
always glossed ligitstrum (privet). The name 
means 'a plant from which honey is sucked.' 
namely by bees, as the name apiayo (< L. 
(tills, a bee) and the MHG. binsuge, above men- 
tioned, indicate. Other names are E. wood- 
bine, ML. caprifoliitM (glossing ME. wodebyndr, 
woodbine), D. kainperfoelie, F. cltetrefeuille, 
etc. (see caprifole, eaprifoliiini), G. geikublalt, 
lit. 'goat-leaf, ''etc.] 1. A name of upright or 
climbing shrubs of the genus Lmiieera, natural 
order Caprifoliaccw, natives of the temperate 
parts of both hemispheres. They have entire op- 
posite leaves, and axillary, often fragrant, white, red, or 
yellow flowers, which are succeeded by sweetish red or 
purple berries. 
The common hon- 
eysuckle, L. Peri- 
clytnenum, a na- 
tive of central and 
western Europe, 
cultivated in the 
fnited States, is 
also known by the 
name of wood- 
bine, and is prob- 
ably the 'twisted 
eglantine ' of Mil- 
ton. L. Caprifo- 
lium, which is 
frequent in gar- 
dens, and is char- 
acterized by the 
upper pairs of 
leaves being unit- 
ed into a cup, and 
L. Xylosteum, the 
fly - honeysuckle, 
are also found in 
England, the lat- 
ter only being 
probably native. 
^run^orlS c^^pSS^ ^rf, 
honeysuckle), a 
native of North America, is cultivated on account of 
the beauty of its large flowers, which are red on the 
outside and yellowish within. L. ciliata is the American 
fly-honeysuckle; it has a honey-yellow corolla slightly 
tinged with purple. L. /texiuma is the Chinese honey- 
suckle, and L. Tartanca the Tatarian honeysuckle. The 
bark of L. eoryuioian is used for dyeing black in Chili, 
and the berries of L. coertilea are a favorite food of the 
Kamtchadales. 
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