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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.

and other plants in small drops, like dew. Two substances have been called by this name; one exuded from the plants, and the other secreted by certain insects, esp. aphids.

Covered with honey.

Destitute of honey. Shak.

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.

A chemical substance formed in one organ and carried in the circulation to another organ on which it exerts a stimulating effect; thus, according to Starling, the gastric glands are stimulated by a hormone from the pyloric mucous membrane.

A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.

See Whirlbone.

A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.