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honey
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Honey is a sweet food made by bees foraging nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees (the genus Apis ) is the one most commonly referred to, as it is the type of honey collected by most beekeepers and consumed by people. Honey is also produced ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from honey (n.). Related: Honeyed ; honeying .\n
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE clear ▪ Simmer for about 5 minutes until the sugar has dissolved, then stir in four tablespoons of clear honey . ▪ Quarter figs, top them with some cinnamon-spiced ricotta and drizzle with clear honey . sweet ▪ ...
Usage examples of honey.
She had eaten a slice of bread with a bit of honey for breakfast, but now the sun eased towards the horizon, and Amelle was hungry.
The reason the honey was so universally prized did not lie in the flowers the bees visited, but in the fact that Hymettan apiarists never smoked their hives when gathering the honey.
It was this scent, I realized, that had brought me back from my vision, the fragrance of porridge with honey and dried apples as they made it in Aval on.
Reynard then bade his companion thrust his nose well down into the hollow and eat his fill of honey.
Pol moved through the market, chewing baklava, licking fingers coated with honey.
After a few dicey moments they finally got settledBoyd in the stern, Eugenie in the bowand Honey eased them into the current.
His rule prescribed no unnatural mortification: its yoke was easy, and its mirthful choruses, combining the gay with the severe, did but commemorate that golden age when earth enjoyed eternal spring, and when fountains of honey, milk, and wine burst forth out of its bosom at the touch of the thyrsus.
Her eyes closed, and her life was despaired of, when it was found that her mouth and throat were obstructed to such a degree that she could swallow nothing but a few drops of honey.
A mass of flowers of all species and color flung their fragrance to the breeze, while a cytisus covered with yellow clusters scattered its fine pollen abroad, a golden cloud, with an odor of honey that bore its balmy seed across space, similar to the sachet-powders of perfumers.
I got a small cup of sweet coffee, redolent of honey and cardamom, for two dirhams, and sipped it standing there, enjoying the crowd.
Among the red trout and cakes made of oaten meal, there was an abundance of the famed honey of Carman itself, and sloak and dulse from the nearby sea, as well as its game: millicks, or periwinkles still in their shells, scallops and the meaty black sole.
The same dumpster had yielded four Sweet and Innocent honey candy suckers, smashed, but still in their wrappers.
If eaten to excess, especially by young persons, grapes will make the tongue and the lining membrane of the mouth sore, just as honey often acts.
Moreover, it is all ready for absorption straightway into the blood after being eaten, whereas cane sugar must be first masticated with the saliva, or spittle, and converted somewhat slowly into honey sugar before it can be utilised for the wants of the body.
The roots when preserved with honey, or sugar, are reputed to be of special service against the gout, if a reasonable quantity thereof be eaten fasting every day for a certain space.