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Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.

A cell in a honeycomb.

Done out of love. [Obs.] Lay an amiable siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak.

Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), ., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces. An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.

Having lost, or tending to lose, inflections by phonetic decay; as, anaptotic languages.

Any aphid from which ants obtain honeydew.

Various kinds of plant lice or aphids tended by ants for the sake of the honeydew which they secrete. See Aphips.

ease its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.

A musical response; alternate singing or chanting. See Antiphony, and Antiphone.

The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict.

Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

The scientific or systematic study of honey bees.

A genus of insects of the order Hymenoptera, including the common honeybee (Apis mellifica) and other related species. See Honeybee.

Thorough or downright, in a good sense. [Obs.] An arrant honest woman. Burton.

swift; darting; piercing. "His arrowy tongue." Cowper. By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone. Byron. With arrowy vitalities, vivacities, and ingenuities. Carlyle.

, or stratagem; characterized by simplicity and sincerity; sincere; guileless; ingenuous; honest; as, an artless mind; an artless tale. They were plain, artless men, without the least appearance of enthusiasm or credulity about them. Porteus. O, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumbered…

To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phattaint. Spenser. Lest she with blame her honor should attaint. Spenser.

A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

large black seaweed (Alaria esculenta) sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware.

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.