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d to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim. Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself. Shak. To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Johnson. We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters. Macaulay.…

Wine boiled and mingled with honey.

A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applie…

aining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid of the alloxan group, obtained as a honey-yellow powder. Its solutions have a gelatinous consistency.

A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.

the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

Wine mixed with honey; mead, [R.]

lliant yellow feathers formerly used in making the royal robes. Called also yellow-tufted honeysucker.

A mixture of honey, water, vinegar, and spice, boiled to a sirup. Sir T. Elyot.

e, to load; to encumber; as, to pack a horse. Our thighs packed with wax, our mouths with honey. Shack.

A floral ornament, common in Greek and other ancient architecture; -- often called the honeysuckle ornament.

The honey buzzard.

Wine flavored with species and honey. Sir W. Scott. Pigment cell (Physiol.), a small cell containing coloring matter, as the pigmented epithelial cells of the choroid and iris, or the pigmented connective tissue cells in the skin of fishes, reptiles, etc.

Wine flavored with spice or honey. See Pigment, 3. [Obs.]

traitors. Mark, how a plain tale shall put you down. Shak. Sugar hath put down the use of honey. Bacon.

red cherries." Spenser. -- Queen bee (Zoöl.), a female bee, especially the female of the honeybee. See Honeybee. -- Queen conch (Zoöl.), a very large West Indian cameo conch (Cassis cameo). It is much used for making cameos. -- Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king. Blackstone. -- Queen dowager, the widow of a…

ck with raillery, either in good humor and pleasantry, or with slight contempt or satire. Honeycomb . . . raillies me upon a country life. Addison. Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain. Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain. Gay.

ny carnivore of the genus Mellivora, allied to the weasels and the skunks; -- called also honey badger.

fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of. "Honey redolent of spring." Dryden. -- Red"o*lent*ly, adv. Gales . . . redolent of joy and youth. Gray.

o be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. Spenser.