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r sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone. Tusser. Hone slateSee Polishing slate. -- Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.

Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer. Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! Shak.

The act of honesting; grace; adornment. [Obs.] W. Montagu.

Honesty; honorableness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. Shak. To come honestly by. (a) To get honestly. (b) A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly by a feature, a mental trait, a peculiarity.

honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.] Chaucer. She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. Shak.

lant of the genus Sison (S.Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.

id, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.

The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.

Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive. Shak.

Sweet as honey. Chaucer.

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.

A sweet, saccharine substance, found on the leaves of trees 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.