'Honey' definitions:

Definition of 'honey'

From: WordNet
adjective
Of something having the color of honey
noun
A sweet yellow liquid produced by bees
noun
A beloved person; used as terms of endearment [syn: beloved, dear, dearest, honey, love]
verb
Sweeten with honey

Definition of 'Honey'

From: GCIDE
  • Honey \Hon"ey\ (h[u^]n"[y^]), n. [OE. honi, huni, AS. hunig; akin to OS. honeg, D. & G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. h[*a]ning, Dan. honning, cf. Gr. ko`nis dust, Skr. ka[.n]a grain.]
  • 1. A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. [1913 Webster]
  • The honey of his language. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Sweet one; -- a term of endearment. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Honey is often used adjectively or as the first part of compound; as, honeydew or honey dew; honey guide or honeyguide; honey locust or honey-locust. [1913 Webster]
  • Honey ant (Zool.), 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.
  • Honey badger (Zool.), the ratel.
  • Honey bear. (Zool.) See Kinkajou.
  • Honey buzzard (Zool.), a bird related to the kites, of the genus Pernis. The European species is Pernis apivorus; the Indian or crested honey buzzard is {Pernis ptilorhyncha}. They feed upon honey and the larv[ae] of bees. Called also bee hawk, bee kite.
  • Honey guide (Zool.), one of several species of small birds of the family Indicatorid[ae], inhabiting Africa and the East Indies. They have the habit of leading persons to the nests to wild bees. Called also honeybird, and indicator.
  • Honey harvest, the gathering of honey from hives, or the honey which is gathered. --Dryden.
  • Honey kite. (Zool.) See Honey buzzard (above).
  • Honey locust (Bot.), a North American tree ({Gleditschia triacanthos}), armed with thorns, and having long pods with a sweet pulp between the seeds.
  • Honey month. Same as Honeymoon.
  • Honey weasel (Zool.), the ratel. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Honey'

From: GCIDE
  • Honey \Hon"ey\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Honeyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Honeying.] To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. "Honeying and making love." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Rough to common men, But honey at the whisper of a lord. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Honey'

From: GCIDE
  • Honey \Hon"ey\, v. t. To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey. [1913 Webster]
  • Canst thou not honey me with fluent speech? --Marston. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Honey'

From: Easton
  • Honey
  • 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.
  • Nopheth, honey that drops (Ps. 19:10; Prov. 5:3; Cant. 4:11).
  • 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.
  • Tsuph, the cells of the honey-comb full of honey (Prov. 16:24; Ps. 19:10).
  • "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).

Synonyms of 'honey'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Words containing 'Honey'