honey

honey
    adj 1: of something having the color of honey
    n 1: a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees
    2: a beloved person; used as terms of endearment [syn:
       {beloved}, {dear}, {dearest}, {honey}, {love}]
    v 1: sweeten with honey
    

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.
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   2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
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            The honey of his language.            --Shak.
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   3. Sweet one; -- a term of endearment. --Chaucer.
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            Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus. --Shak.
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   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.
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   {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.
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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.
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         Rough to common men,
         But honey at the whisper of a lord.      --Tennyson.
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Honey \Hon"ey\, v. t.
   To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with,
   honey.
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         Canst thou not honey me with fluent speech? --Marston.
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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).
    

138 Moby Thesaurus words for "honey":
      Jell-O, ace, ambrosia, angel, artificial sweetener, babe, baby,
      baby-doll, beaut, beloved, blackstrap, blancmange, blarney, butter,
      butter up, buttercup, calcium cyclamate, candy, cane syrup,
      captive, catch, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, clover honey,
      comb honey, comfit, compote, confection, confectionery, confiture,
      conquest, conserve, coquette, corker, corn syrup, crackerjack,
      cyclamates, daisy, dandy, darb, darling, date, dear, deary, dilly,
      doll, dream, duck, duckling, dulcify, edulcorate, edulcoration,
      flame, flirt, frosting, gelatin, get around, glaze, heartthrob,
      hon, honey bunch, honey child, honeycomb, honeydew, honeypot,
      humdinger, icing, inamorata, jam, jelly, jolly, kid along,
      killer-diller, knockout, ladylove, lamb, lambkin, lay it on,
      lollapaloosa, love, lover, lulu, maple syrup, marmalade, meringue,
      molasses, mousse, mull, nectar, oil, overdo it, peach, pet,
      petkins, pip, pippin, play up to, precious, precious heart,
      preserve, saccharification, saccharify, saccharin, snookums, soap,
      sodium cyclamate, soft-soap, soften up, sorghum, steady,
      string along, stroke, sugar, sugar off, sugar-making, sugarcoat,
      sugaring off, sweet, sweet patootie, sweet stuff, sweeten,
      sweetener, sweetening, sweetheart, sweetie, sweetkins, sweetmeat,
      sweets, syrup, the nuts, treacle, truelove, tutti-frutti, vamp,
      vampire, whipped cream, whiz