honey
n.
sweet sticky substance produced by honeybees; darling, sweetheart (term of endearment)
adj.
of honey, resembling honey; sweet; containing honey
v.
flatter; sweeten with honey
Honey
Honey is a sweet and
viscous fluid produced by
honey bees (and some other species of bee), and derived from the
nectar of
flowers. According to the
United States National Honey Board and various international food regulations, "honey stipulates a pure product that does not allow for the addition of any other substance...this includes, but is not limited to, water or other
sweeteners". This article refers exclusively to the honey produced by
honey bees (the genus Apis); honey produced by other bees or other insects has very different properties.
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Honey (L'Arc-en-Ciel song)
honey
Noun
1. a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees
(hypernym) sweetening, sweetener
(substance-holonym) mead
2. a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
(synonym) beloved, dear, dearest, loved one, love
(hypernym) lover
Verb
1. sweeten with honey
(hypernym) sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate
Adjective
1. having the color of honey
(similar) chromatic
Honey
(v. t.)
To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
(v. i.)
To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
(n.)
That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
(n.)
Sweet one; -- a term of endearment.
(n.)
A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Honey
Honey, Honey-Dew Used by some ancient writers as a symbol for wisdom, the idea being that just as the bees (emblem of initiates) gather nectar or honey (knowledge) from the flowers (of life) and digest it into honey, so are the experiences of human life stored in the memory, and the knowledge so garnered is digested into wisdom. The priestesses of certain Greek temples were called Melissai (bees).
In the ancient Scandinavian conception of the World Tree (Yggdrasil), the dew that fell from this cosmic tree was called honey-dew, and was gathered by the bees -- the initiates who through successes in passing the rites are enabled to bring themselves into synchronous harmony with the different cosmic powers and planes, and thus become channels or interpreters of cosmic wisdom to humanity. The idea is akin to the real meaning of the ambrosia of the ancient Greeks, which was the food of the gods -- standing for the ancient wisdom.