| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb honey.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (honeily) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the adjective honey.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (honey) | 1. Sweeten with honey.[Wordnet]. 2. To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.[Websters]. 3. To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.[Websters]. 4. Base verb from the following inflections: honeying, honeyed, honeys, honeyer, honeyers, honeyingly and honeyedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "HONEYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Specialty Definition: honey
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] hun'y. . | 2: [Noun] A sweet vegetable juice, collected by bees from the flowers of plants, and deposited in cells of the comb in hives. Honey, when pure, is of a moderate consistence, of a whitish color,tinged with yellow,sweet to the taste, of an agreeable smell, soluble in water, and becoming vinous by fermentation. In medicine, it is useful as a detergent and aperient. It is supposed to consist of sugar, mucilage, and an acid.. | 3: [Noun] Sweetness; lusciousness. The king hath found Matter against him, that forever mars The honey of his language.. | 4: [Noun] A word of tenderness; sweetness; sweet one.. | 5: [Verb] To talk fondly.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Bible | 1: Honey (1.) Heb. ya'ar, occurs only 1 Sam. 14:25, 27, 29; Cant. 5:1, where it denotes the honey of bees. Properly the word signifies a forest or copse, and refers to honey found in woods. (2.) Nopheth, honey that drops (Ps. 19:10; Prov. 5:3; Cant. 4:11). (3.) Debash denotes bee-honey (Judg. 14:8); but also frequently a vegetable honey distilled from trees (Gen. 43:11; Ezek. 27:17). In these passages it may probably mean "dibs," or syrup of grapes, i.e., the juice of ripe grapes boiled down to one-third of its bulk. (4.) Tsuph, the cells of the honey-comb full of honey (Prov. 16:24; Ps. 19:10). (5.) "Wild honey" (Matt. 3:4) may have been the vegetable honey distilled from trees, but rather was honey stored by bees in rocks or in trees (Deut. 32:13; Ps. 81:16; 1 Sam. 14:25-29). Canaan was a "land flowing with milk and honey" (Ex. 3:8). Milk and honey were among the chief dainties in the earlier ages, as they are now among the Bedawin; and butter and honey are also mentioned among articles of food (Isa. 7:15). The ancients used honey instead of sugar (Ps. 119:103; Prov. 24:13); but when taken in great quantities it caused nausea, a fact referred to in Prov. 25:16, 17 to inculcate moderation in pleasures. Honey and milk also are put for sweet discourse (Cant. 4:11). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | 2: The Hebrew debash in the first place applied to the product of the bee, to which exclusively we give the name of honey. All travelers agree in describing Palestine as a land "flowing with milk and honey," (Exodus 3:8) bees being abundant even in the remote parts of the wilderness, where they deposit their honey in the crevices of rocks or in hollow trees. In some parts of northern Arabia the hills are so well stocked with bees that no sooner are hives placed than they are occupied. In the second place the term debash applies to a decoction of the juice of the grape, which is still called dibs, and which forms an article of commerce in the East, it was this, and not ordinary bee-honey, which Jacob sent to Joseph, (Genesis 43:11) and which the Tyrians purchased from Palestine. (Ezekiel 27:17) A third kind has been described by some writers as a "vegetable" honey, by which is meant the exudations of certain trees and shrubs, such as the Tamarix mannifera, found in the peninsula of Sinai, or the stunted oaks of Luristan and Mesopotamia. The honey which Jonathan ate in the wood, (1 Samuel 14:25) and the "wild honey" which supported John the Baptist, (Matthew 3:42) have been referred to this species. But it was probably the honey of wild bees. (references) | |
| Dream Interpretation | 1: To dream of eating honey, foretells that you will attain wealth and love. To lovers, this indicates a swift rush into marital joys. 2: To dream that you see honey, you will be possessed of considerable wealth. 3: To see strained honey, denotes wealth and ease, but there will be an undercurrent in your life of unlawful gratification of material desires. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Geography | 1: Honey is geographically located in Mexico. Its features include a railroad station (a facility comprising ticket office, platforms, etc. for loading and unloading train passengers and freight). Its geographic coordinates are 20.25 degrees North latitude and 98.216667 degrees West longitude. (references) | 2: Honey is geographically located in South Africa. Its features include a farm (a tract of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture). Its geographic coordinates are 23.233333 degrees South latitude and 28.066667 degrees East longitude. (references) | |
| Health | Currency. (references) | ||
| Statistics | A sweet sticky yellowish fluid made by bees and other insects from nectar collected from flowers. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] (color) of a yellowish-brown colour, like that of honey. (references) | 2: [Noun] (colloquial, countable) An attractive woman Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!. (references) | 3: [Noun] (color) A yellowish-brown colour, like that of (the sweet substance) honey. . (references) | 4: [Noun] (uncountable) A viscous, sweet substance produced from nectar by bees; (countable) a variety of this substance. (references) | 5: [Noun] A term of affection. Honey, could you take out the trash?. (references) |
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Common Expressions: honey
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| A Taste of Honey (band) | A Taste of Honey was the name of an American recording act which scored one of the biggest hits of the disco era. (references) | ||
| Bangladesh Honey | Bangadesh Honey refers to the honey production in Bangladesh. Little is known about the honey industry in Bangladesh. There are only 3000 beekeepers but 30,000 beehives. On average, every beekeeper has 10 beehives to maintain. This proves that bee-keepers are experienced and dedicated. Most bee-keepers live in the Sundarban district, known for its abundant nature and thick forests. Most of the economic activity happens from April to May, which is the "bee hunting season". The industry is somewhat profitable in Bangladesh. (references) | ||
| Comb honey | Comb honey is produced by honeybees in a hive. The bees fill the hexagon shaped wax cells of the honeycomb with honey and cap it with beeswax. (references) | ||
| Cutey Honey | Cutie Honey (キューティーハニー; kyūtī hanī) (romanized in the USA as "Cutey Honey") is a widely known anime and manga series created by Go Nagai in 1973. Although an android, the main character Honey shows striking similarities to the magical girl concept (e.g., she can change into any outfit, especially when revealing herself to enemies) with a few key differences. (references) | ||
| Finland Honey | Finland Honey refers to the honey production in Finland. There are no indigenous bee species in Finland. The first records show that the earliest bees were black bees imported than Estonia and Sweden. The first beekeepers started in the southwestern part of Finland and later in south and central Finland. During the last decade beekeeping has spread to northeastern Finland. Around 50% of the bees are still located in the southern part of Finland. However, beekeeping in Finland, is being practised as far north as the polar circle. (references) | ||
| Honey (disambiguation) | Honey is a sweet and viscous fluid produced by bees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. (references) | ||
| Honey ant | (Zo["o]l.), a small ant (Myrmecocystus melliger), found in the Southwestern United States, and in Mexico, living in subterranean formicares. There are larger and smaller ordinary workers, and others, which serve as receptacles or cells for the storage of honey, their abdomens becoming distended to the size of a currant. These, in times of scarcity, regurgitate the honey and feed the rest. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Honey badger | Nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Honey bear | Arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Honey bell | African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: honey
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Bears are caught by Honey | Literature | 1: There is another phrase: Divide honey with a bear, i.e. It is better to divide your honey with a bear than to provoke its anger. 2: In French, "Il faut avoir mauvaise bête par douceur, " for, as La Fontaine says, "Plus fait douceur que violence." Bears are very fond of honey. Bribes win even bears. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Grape honey | Food & Agriculture | A specially prepared concentrated must with the appearance of honey; used as dessert. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Honey baby | Slang | Noun. Source: Linguistic 101 students at the University of Oregon. Definition: The term "honey baby" describes a beautiful girl. Context: One would use the term to describe a beautiful girl . Social Source: Swingers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) | |
| Honey better than Vinegar | Literature | 1: It is better to be preserved in vinegar than to rot in honey. It is better to suffer affliction if thereby the heart is brought to God, than to lose body and soul by worldly indulgences. 2: "On prend plus de mouches avec du miel, qu'avcc du vinaigre." "Plus fait douceur que violence." "It faut avoir mauvaise bête par douccur." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Honey blunts | Health | Marijuana cigars sealed with honey. (references) | |
| Honey comb | Geography | Obstructions comprising passages in tiers resembling honey combs to dampen the turbulence of flow. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| HONEY EXTRACTOR | Occupations | Tends machine that extracts liquid honey from combs: Places decapped honeycombs in baskets of honey-extracting machine and closes cover. Sets clock for specified time cycle and starts extractor machine to pump honey from honeycombs to drums for storage. Stops machine when time bell rings. Removes emptied honeycombs from machine and places them in vacant supers. May cut caps from honeycombs [HONEYCOMB DECAPPER (food prep., nec)]. (references) | |
| Honey fungus | Biology & Biotechnology | A Basidiomycete fungus causing butt rot in both hardwoods and softwoods. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| HONEY GRADER-AND-BLENDER | Occupations | Grades honey according to type, color, bouquet, and moisture content, and blends various grades to obtain uniform product: Compares samples of liquid honey lots with standard samples for color and bouquet, and ascertains moisture content, using refractometer. Calculates amount of various types of honey for mixing to produce product of uniform color, clarity, and bouquet. Directs other workers in dumping and blending of various honey lots in warming chamber. May grade and mark honeycomb sections according to government regulations. (references) | |
| Honey Madness | Literature | There is a rhododendron about Trebizond, the flowers of which the bees are fond of, but if anyone eats the honey he becomes mad, (Tourneford.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Honey moon | Slang in 1811 | HONEY MOON. The first month after marriage. A poor honey; a harmless, foolish, good-natured fellow. It is all honey or a t--d with them; said of persons who are either in the extremity of friendship or enmity, either kissing or fighting. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Honey oil | Health | Ketamine; inhalants. (references) | |
| HONEY PLANT | Botanical | A plant whose flowers are regularly visited by honey-producing bees. Acacia, Andira, Avicennia, Bourreria, Byrsonima, Casearia, Ceiba, Citharexylum, Citrus, Coccoloba, Coffea, Cordia, Cupania, Cydista, Cyrilla, Dendropanax, Eugenia, Euphorbia, Fagopyrum, Genipa, Gliricidia, Guazuma, Haematoxylon, Hibiscus, Hippomane, Hymenaea, Inga, Laguncularia, Lathyrus, Lonchocarpus, Malvaviscus, Melicoccus, Moringa, Nectandra, Picramnia, Pithecellobium, Prosopis, Rhizophora, Samanea, Sapindus, Spondias, Sterculia, Tamarindus, Tecoma, Vicia, Zanthoxylukm. (references) | |
| Honey pot | Computing | Honey pot n. A box designed to attract crackers so that they can be observed in action. It is usually well isolated from the rest of the network, but has extensive logging (usually network layer, on a different machine). Different from an iron box in that it's purpose is to attract, not merely observe. Sometimes, it is also a defensive network security tactic - you set up an easy-to-crack box so that your real servers don't get messed with. The concept was presented in Cheswick & Bellovin's book "Firewalls and Internet Security". Source: Jargon File.. | |
| Honey processor | Occupations | Tends equipment that pasteurizes and filters liquid honey, and seeds honey with crystals to make crystallized honey for use as food spread: Turns valve to admit honey from blending tanks to pasteurizer, and to adjust and control pasteurizing temperature. Installs pads in filter press and turns handcrank to tighten pads. Starts pumps and adjusts pressure to force honey through filter and transfer honey to bottling machine or cooling vats. Pours container of honey crystals into vat of liquid honey and mixes it with paddle or electric stirring rod to induce controlled crystallization. May bottle honey. (references) | |
| Honey producer | Occupations | Raises bees to produce honey and pollinate crops: Assembles beehives, using handtools. Arranges with sellers for purchases of honeybee colonies. Inserts honeycomb of bees into beehive or inducts wild swarming bees into hive of prepared honeycomb frames. Places screen plug in hive entrance to confine bees and sets hive in orchard, clover field, or near other source of nectar and pollen. Forces bees from hive, using smoke pot or by placing carbolic acid soaked pad over hive to inspect hive and to harvest honeycombs. Scrapes out parasites, such as wax moth larvae, and removes vermin, such as birds and mice. Collects royal jelly from queen bee cells for sale as base for cosmetics and as health food. Destroys superfluous queen bee cells to prevent division of colony by swarming. Destroys diseased bee colonies, using cyanide gas. Burns hive of diseased bee colony or sterilizes hive, using caustic soda solution. Uncaps harvested honeycombs and extracts honey. Arranges with buyers for sale of honey. May cultivate bees to produce bee colonies and queen bees for sale and be designated Bee Producer (agriculture); Queen Producer (agriculture). (references) | |
| Honey program | Agriculture | Non-recourse marketing loans had long been available to support honey prices until FY1994, when the funding was suspended by provisions in annual appropriations legislation. The FACT Act of 1990 had set honey loan rates at 53.8 cents per pound and permitted deficiency payments. The 1996 FAIR Act repealed the statutory authority for the honey program. A Honey Recourse Loan Program was made available the 1998 crop only through broader emergency spending authority in the FY1999 agriculture appropriations act (P. L. 105-277, October 21, 1998). (references) | |
| Honey Recourse Loan Program | Agriculture | A program authorized by the emergency provisions of the FY1999 USDA appropriations act (P.L. 105-277, October 21, 1998) that makes recourse loans based on a national average rate of $0.56 per pound on 1998-crop honey. Final date to obtain a loan was May 7, 1999. The producer-owned honey must be merchantable and stored in acceptable containers. Loans carry an administrative fee of $0.009 per pound, bear an interest rate 1% higher than the CCC borrowing interest rate, and mature not later than 9 months following disbursement. The program is administered by the Farm Service Agency. (references) | |
| Honey Soap | Literature | Contains no portion of honey. Some is made from the finest yellow soap; and some is a mixture of palm-oil soap, olive-soap, and curdsoap. It is scented with oil of verbena, rose-geranium, ginger-grass, bergamot, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| Honey stone | Mining | A mellate of aluminum, Al2 [C6 (COO)6 ].16H2) O , of yellowish or reddish color, and a resinous aspect, crystallizing in octahedrons with a square base. See also:mellite. (references) | |
| Milk and Honey | Literature | 1: "Jerusalem the golden, 2: A land of milk and honey. That is, abounding in all good things, or of extraordinary fertility. Joel iii. 18 speaks of "the mountains flowing with milk and honey." Figuratively used to denote all the blessings of heaven. 3: With milk and honey blest." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
| My honey | Slang in 1811 | HINNEY, MY HONEY. A north country hinney, particularly a Northumbrian: in that county, hinney is the general term of endearment. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
| Sugar and Honey | Literature | Rhyming slang for "money." (See Chivy.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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