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The first month after marriage. Addison.

See Mellite.

See Honey eater, under Honey.

One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.

Covered with honeysuckles.

See Badderlocks.

A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon.

An apparatus for the production of sound by the action of the actinic, or ultraviolet, rays.

An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing.

A book of antiphons. Chaucer.

A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.

sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

A pneumatic reproducer for a phonograph, controlled by the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

An instrument combining a cinematograph and a phonograph so that the moving figures on the screen are accompanied by the appropriate sounds.

To disparage. [Obs.]

A dishonoring; disgracing. [Obs.] Gauden.

instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone. Knight.

A form of phonographic recorder and reproducer adapted for use in dictation, as in business.

Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.] Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. Pope. Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women]. Sir T. North.