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Iowa; -- a nickname of obscure origin.

The eye or loop formed in each heddle to receive a warp thread.

High. [Obs.] Chaucer.

time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness. The heyday in the blood is tame. Shak. In the heyday of their victories. J. H. Newman.

A kind of country-dance or round. [Obs.] Spenser.

High. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A wretch; a rascal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hence. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into the teeth of which the screw is intended to work. It is named from the person who first used the form.

The stick used by the players. [Written also hookey and hawkey.]

esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.

The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.

Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive. Shak.

Sweet as honey. Chaucer.

Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.

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…

An Old World hackberry (Celtis australis).

The honey guide.

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

Formed or perforated like a honeycomb. Each bastion was honeycombed with casements. Motley.