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to appropriate; -- usually with up. Homer excels . . . in this, that he swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him. Pope.

le; dominion; control. Cowper. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station. Addison.

encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner. [Obs.]

e purity of color. "Tarnished lace." Fuller. Used also figuratively; as, to tarnish one's honor.

ed as freely as I have taxed their crimes. Dryden. Fear not now that men should tax thine honor. M. Arnold.

ure; -- with of. "Tender of property." Burke. The civil authority should be tender of the honor of God and religion. Tillotson.

A festival celebrated annually by the Romans on February 23 in honor of Terminus, the god of boundaries.

hful to the king and his heirs, and truth and faith to bear of life and limb, and terrene honor. O. Eng. Oath of Allegiance, quoted by Blackstone. Common conceptions of the matters which lie at the basis of our terrene experience. Hickok.

, and Pomerania. In its decay it was abolished by Napoleon; but it has been revived as an honorary order.

A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis. Milton.

To purpose; to intend; to design; to mean. I thought to promote thee unto great honor. Num. xxiv. 11. Thou thought'st to help me. Shak.

largely superseded by electronic stock quotation devices. ticker tape parade A parade to honor a person, held in New York City, during which people in the tall buildings of Manhattan throw large quantities of paper, confetti, paper ribbons, or the like onto the parading group. The name comes form the ticker tape origi…

A state in which the love of honor is the ruling motive.

distinction, or preëminence (hereditary or acquired), given to persons, as duke marquis, honorable, esquire, etc. With his former title greet Macbeth. Shak.

o a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.

To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

Honorable discourse; eulogy. [Obs.] She was born noble; let that title find her a private grave, but neither tongue nor honor. Beau. & Fl.

The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school. And wears upon hisbaby brow the round And top of sovereignty. Shak.

inarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honor. Holland.

ls; custom or practice long observed. Will you mock at an ancient tradition begun upon an honorable respect Shak. Naught but tradition remains of the beautiful village of Grand-Pré. Longfellow.