Vocabulary : Honesty to Honeydew

Honesty : Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. ;; The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. ;; Chastity; modesty. ;; Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
Honewort : An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.
Honey : A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. ;; That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. ;; Sweet one; -- a term of endearment. ;; To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. ;; To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
Honey-bag : The receptacle for honey in a honeybee.
Honeybee : Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.
Honeyberry : The fruit of either of two trees having sweetish berries: (a) An Old World hackberry (Celtis australis). (b) In the West Indies, the genip (Melicocca bijuga).
Honeybird : The honey guide.
Honeycomb : A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs. ;; Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.
Honeycombed : Formed or perforated like a honeycomb.
Honeydew : A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids. ;; A kind of tobacco moistened with molasses.
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