honeysuckle 
So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle 
Gently entwist. Shak., SI. N. D., iv. 1. 
I left this place, and saw a brother of the angle sit un- 
der that honeymrklf hedge, one that will prove worth your 
acquaintance. /. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 111. 
I sat me down to watch upon a bank 
With ivy canopied, and interwove 
With Haunting honey-suckle. 
Milton, Comus, 1. M5. 
2. A plant of some other genus. The name 7n., //- 
ttuckle is very generally applied in northern New England 
to the genus Aquiletiia, of the natural order Ranuncula- 
ceai, and particularly to the native wild columbine, A. 
Canadensin. The African fly-honeysuckle is Halleria 
lucida, of the natural order Scrophularinete ; the Aus- 
tralian honeysuckles belong to the genus Bankttia, natural 
order Proteacece, as B. terrain and B. integrtfolia. The 
bush-honeysuckles, of the genus Diervttla (a near relative 
of Lonicera, the true honeysuckle), are low shrubs of North 
America, China, and Japan, extensively cultivated for their 
profuse, mostly rose-colored flowers. The dwarf honey- 
suckle is Cormit Suecica, of the natural order Cornacetf, a 
native of north temperate or arctic countries ; the French 
honeysuckle is Hedyxarum coronarium, of the natural 
order Leguminosas; the ground-honeysuckle is Lotws 
corniciUatus, of the natural order Leginnitut<v ; the New 
Zealand honeysuckle is Knightia excelsa, of the natural 
order Proteaceae ; the Tasmanian honeysuckle is Banicsia 
australis; the West Indian honeysuckle is Teconia capen- 
sis; the purple honeysuckle or azalea is Rhododendron 
nudijlorum; the white honeysuckle is Rhododendron 
iriscomm, of the natural order Ericacece. Various species 
of Demnodium are also so called. See llanktia, Diervilla, 
Lonicera, Cornug, Hedysarum, Desmodium, Halleria, 
Tecoma, Rhododendron. 
According to Culpepper, the white honeysuckle and red 
honeysuckle were names of the white and red sorts of 
meadow trefoil. In the West of England the red clover 
is still called honeytuckle. Halliwell. 
3. The flower of any of the above plants. 
Woodbine that beareth the honeysuckle. 
Baret, Alvearie, 1580. 
honeysuckle-apple (hun'i-suk-l-ap*l), . A 
fungus, Exobasidiitm Azalece, occurring on the 
branches of Rhododendron (Azalea) nudiflorum. 
It is eaten by children. Also called swamp- 
apyle. [New Eng.] 
honeysuckle-clover (hun'i-snk-l-klo'ver), . 
The common white clover, Trifolium repens. 
honeysuckled (hun'i-suk"ld), a. [< honeysuckle 
+ -eri 2 .] Covered with honeysuckles. 
honeysuckle-tree (hun'i-suk-1-tre), . A plant 
of the genus Banksia, natural order Proteacea;, 
of several species, particularly B. marginata (B. 
australis), B. collina, B. latifolia, and B. erici- 
folia. They are large shrubs or small trees, natives of 
Australia, New South Wales, and Tasmania, the flowers of 
which yield an abundance of honey. 
honey-sugar (hun'i-shug'ar), n. The solid 
constituent of honey after granulation. It is 
said to be chiefly glucose. 
honey-sweet (hun'i-swet), n. The meadow- 
weed, Spircea ulmaria. 
honey-sweet (hun'i-swet), a. [< ME. hony- 
swete = D. honigsoet, etc.] Sweet as honey. 
For which this Januarie of whom I tolde, 
Considered hath inwith his dayes olde, 
The lusty lyf, the vertuous quyete, 
That is in marriage hony-swete. 
Chaucer, Merchant's Tale, 1. 162. 
Prithee, honey-tweet husband, let me bring thee to 
Staines. Shak., Hen. V., 11. 3. 
honey-tongued (hun'i-tungd), a. Speaking 
sweetly, softly, or winningly. 
Consciences, that will not die in debt, 
Pay him the due of honey-tonyued Boyet. 
Shak., L. L. L..T. 2. 
honey-tube (hun'i-tub), n. In entom., one of 
the siphonets or small tubular projections on 
the upper surface of the abdomen of an aphis : 
so called because a sweet fluid called honey- 
flew is extruded from them. 
honeyware (hun'i-war), . Same as badder- 
locks. 
honeywort (hun'i-wert), H. 1. The crosswort, 
Galium cruciata. 2. A plant of the genus Ce- 
rinthe, of the natural order BoraginacecK. c. ma- 
jor is a small European annual. The rough honeywort is 
C. anpera. It grows about a foot high, and has oval, stem- 
clasping, bluish-Kreen leaves, with white rough dots, and 
racemes of purplish flowers, which secrete much honey. 
hong 1 !, . An obsolete form of hang. 
hong 2 (hong), n. [Chin. Jiang, in Canton hong, 
a row or series.] 1. A Chinese warehouse, 
consisting of a succession of rooms or store- 
houses. 2. Formerly, as used by the Chinese, 
one of the foreign factories maintainedat Canton 
in the early days of trade with China; now, any 
foreign mercantile establishment in China, Ja- 
pan, etc. Hong merchants, n body of from eight to 
twelve Chinese merchants at Canton, who once had the 
sole privilege of trading with Europeans, and were re- 
sponsible for the conduct of the foreigners with whom 
they dealt and for their payment of customs-duties. By 
the treaty of 1842 their peculiar functions ceased. 
honiet, An obsolete spelling of lioney. 
honied, p. a. See honeyed. 
2874 
honiset, honisht, . t. [ME. honisen, hunyschen, 
< OP. lioiiis-, stem of certain parts of honir, 
liinniir = Pr. aunir = It. onire, < OHG. lionjan (= 
Goth, htiitnjfin = AS. liynan), disgrace, degrade, 
shame.] To destroy; ruin. 
He [God] fyndeth al fayre a freke with-inne 
That hert honest and hoi, that hathel he honourez, . . . 
And harde honysez thise other and of his erde flemez [ban- 
ishes from his abode]. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), il. 596. 
honi soit qui mal y pense. See Order of tlie 
Garter, under garter. 
Honiton lace. See lace. 
honk (hongk), . [Imitative.] The cry of the 
wild goose. 
I heard the tread of a flock of geese, or else ducks, on 
the dry leaves in the woods by a pondhole behind my 
dwelling, where they had come up to feed, and the faint 
hmik, or quack, of their leader as they hurried off. 
Thoreau, Walden, p. 267. 
honk (hongk), v. i. [< honk, .] To emit the 
cry of the wild goose. 
As the air grows colder, the long wedges of geese flying 
south, with their commodore in advance, and honking as 
they fly, are seen high up in the heavens. 
O. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 169. 
The sound of the heavy wing strokes [of geese] and the 
honking seemed directly overhead. 
T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p. 61. 
honker (hong'ker), n. That which honks, as a 
goose ; specifically, the common wild goose of 
America, the Canada goose, Bernicla canadensis. 
See cut under Bernicla. [U. S.] 
My first Honker. Well do I remember the morning on 
which he measured his length on the grass and flopped 
his life out in vain attempts to rise. 
forest and Stream, May 22, 1884. 
Pretty soon a big flock [of wild geese], led by an old 
honker, comes sailin' along, sees our decoys, an' lights. 
New York Evening Pott, Aug. 28, 1885. 
honor, honour (on'or), n. [The second spell- 
ing is still prevalent in England ; early mod. E. 
honor, honour, < ME. honour, honor, honur, pro- 
nounced and sometimes written without the 
aspirate, onotir, onur (earliest form in -r),< AF. 
honur, later honor, honour, OF. honur, hunur, 
honor, hounor, hounour, onor, ounor, ounour, 
even lienor, enor, unur, annor (the accent being 
on the last syllable), later honeur, honneur, F. 
/ioHei<r= Pr. honor, otior = Sp. Pg. honor = It. 
onore, < L. honor', Itonos (honor-) (the form honos 
being the older, and that which is used almost 
exclusively in Cicero), honor, repute, etc. ; root 
unknown. Hence ult. honest, etc.] 1. Re- 
spect blended with some degree of reverence ; 
esteem due to worth or exalted merit of any 
kind; deferential approbation or admiration. 
For men suld hald that haly tre 
In honore als it aw to be. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 123. 
Thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Ps. civ. 1. 
A prophet is not without honour, save in his own coun- 
try. Mat xiii. 57. 
But what is this honour, I mean honour indeed, and 
that which ought to be so dear unto us, other than a kind 
of history, or fame following actions of virtue? 
Raleigh, Hist. World, V. ill. 2. 
Fortune placed him (James I.] in a situation in which 
his weaknesses covered him with disgrace, and in which 
his accomplishments brought him no honour. 
Macaulay, Lord Bacon. 
2. Personal title to high respect or esteem; 
elevation of character; a controlling sense of 
what is right, true, and due ; probity of feeling 
and conduct : often applied specifically to loy- 
alty and high courage in men and chastity in 
Women, as virtues of the highest consideration. 
To extort and take away the right of the poor is against the 
honor of the king. Latiiner, 1st Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1549. 
Heaven so comfort me 
As I am free from foul pollution 
With any man ! my honour ta'en away, 
I am no woman. 
Beau, and Fl., Scornful Lady, v. 2. 
From the field of Pavia, where France suffered one of 
the greatest reverses in her annals, Francis writes to his 
mother: "All is lost except honor.". Sumner, Orations, 1. 60. 
A man of a nice sense of honour is one who is punctil- 
ious in doing things which he could not be punished for 
neglecting, and whose neglect would arouse but little 
disapprobation. C. Herder, Mind, X. 13. 
3. A state, condition, circumstance, or charac- 
ter which confers or attracts high considera- 
tion and respect ; hence, a person of such con- 
dition or character ; a source or ground of es- 
teem, respect, or consideration, as elevated 
rank, dignity, conduct, etc.: as, a post of 
honor; I have not the honor of his acquaintance; 
he is an honor to his country. 
He preide god yeve hem good a-uenture and grace to do 
so that it inyght be savacion to theire soules, and honour 
to theire soules, and honour to theire bodyes. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), Hi. 580. 
honor 
Erasmus, the honour of learning of all onre time, saide 
wiselie that experience is the common scholehouae of 
foles, and ill men. Aschatn, The Scholemaster, p. 62. 
But a trouble weigh'd upon her. 
And perplex'd her, night and morn, 
With the burthen of an tionvnr 
Unto which she was not born. 
Tennyson, Lord of Burleigh. 
Hence 4. That which attracts respect or ad- 
miration; distinction; adornment. 
Therefore he bids thee stand, thou proud man, 
Whilst, with the whisking of my sword about, 
I take thy honour* off. 
Fletcher (and another), Noble Gentleman, v. 1. 
The grateful tree was pleas'd with what he said. 
And shook the shady honours of her head. 
Dn/den, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., i. 769. 
He spoke, and speaking in proud triumph spread 
The long-contended honour* of her head. 
Pope, R. of the L., iv. 140. 
5. A manifestation or token of esteem ; a mark 
of respect, distinction, or high consideration : 
as, to do one honor; the honor of knighthood; 
the honors of war; military honors. 
That it myght you please me do such honoure 
That ye the Annes wold fouchesafe to here 
Off Luxemttorugh. 
Rom. ofPartenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2041. 
Others . . . came, and were healed : who also honoured 
us with many honours. Acts xxviii. 9, 10. 
She may help you to many fair preferments, . . . 
And lay these honours on your high desert. 
Shak., Rich. III., L 8. 
We will do him 
No customary honour: since the knight 
Came not to us, of us to claim the prize, 
Ourselves will send it after. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
6. With a possessive personal pronoun, a def- 
erential title of address or denotation formerly 
used for men of superior condition generally, 
but now (except as a mark of servility) restricted 
in England to the holders of certain offices, par- 
ticularly judges, including those of the county 
courts, and in the United States to mayors, 
judges, and magistrates: as, your honor; his 
honor the judge. 
Your honours shall perceive how I will work 
To bring this matter to the wished end. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., til. 3. 
My master (said I) . . . is come to Bath to recruit. . . . 
I told Thomas that your Honour had already inlisted five 
disbanded chairmen. Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 1. 
"Judge your honor "said Mr. Bender, "I am en- 
tered here, so to speak, as a defendant." 
W. A. Butler, Mrs. Limber's Raffle, ix. 
7. In Eng. law, a seigniory of several manors 
held under one baron or lord paramount. Al- 
though it was not a distinct organization, but an aggre- 
gate of several manors, one court-baron was often held 
for the whole, but regarded as the court of each several 
manor. The name seems also to have been sometimes ap- 
plied to a single great manor, escheating to the king, and 
farmed out for him, or granted by him anew. 
A Man possessed of five Earldoms, Lancaster, Leicester, 
Ferrers, Lincoln and Salisbury, besides the Liberties of 
Pickering, and the Honour of Cockermore. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 106. 
The island of Ireland and the honour of Aumale were 
distinctly territorial lordships. Stu libs, Const. Hist. , 428. 
8. In whist, one of the four highest trump-cards. 
See whist. 
Honours i. e. ace, king, qneen, and knave of trumps- 
are thus reckoned : if a player and his partner, either sepa- 
rately or conjointly, hold (i) the four honours, they score 
four points ; (ii) any three honours, they score two points ; 
(iii) only two honours, they do not score. 
Club Code, quoted in Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 546. 
9. pi. Civilities paid ; hospitalities or courtesies 
rendered, as at an entertainment. 
As I was introduced (to the Greek patriarch] by the 
dragoman, or interpreter from the consul, I had all the 
honours done me that are usual at an eastern visit 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 15. 
Then hire a slave, or (if you will) a lord, 
To do the honours, and to give the word. 
Pope, Imit. of Horace, I. vi. 100. 
Neither is it slight praise to say of a woman that she 
does well the honors of her house in the way of hospital- 
ity. Marg. Fuller, Woman in 19th Cent, p. 262. 
A very old man (a fragment, like the castle itself) 
emerged from some crumbling corner to do me the honors. 
H. James, Jr., Little Tour, p. 189. 
10. Special rank or distinction conferred by a 
university, college, or school upon a student for 
eminence in scholarship or success in some par- 
ticular subject: usually in the plural. 
I very early in the Sophomore year gave up all thoughts 
of obtaining high honors. 
C. A. Bristed, English University, p. 6. 
The son, after bearing away all the best honours of Cam- 
bridge, was ordained. 
J. C. Jeaffreton, Live it Down, I. 155. 
Act of honor. See act. An affair of honor, a duel. 
Code of honor. See code, and laws of honor, below. 
Court of honor, a body of persons sitting as a court to de- 
