honey

Definitions

1. noun

   A sweet, viscous, gold-colored fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.

   Example

   • The honey in the pot should last for years.
   ≈mel
2. noun

   A variety of this substance.

   Examples

   • The physical properties of the different honeys, color, granulation, aroma, flavor, etc., are indicated in the table only in a very general way.
   • If two of the California honeys, western hyssop and fleabane, having a positive polarization at 200 C. are disregarded, then the remaining...
3. noun

   Nectar.

4. noun

   Something sweet or desirable.

   Examples

   • O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
   • the honey of his language
5. noun

   A term of affection.

   Examples

   • Honey, would you take out the trash?
   • Honey, I'm home.
   ≈darling
6. noun

   A woman, especially an attractive one.

   Examples

   • Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
   • It's hard on a fella, when he don't know his way around If I don't find me a honey to help me spend my money I'm gonna have to blow this town.
7. noun

   A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.

8. noun

   Precum or pre-ejaculate.

9. adjective

   Involving or resembling honey.

   Examples

   • So work the honey-bees, / Creatures that by a rule in nature teach / The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
   • Dim as the forming of / Dew in the warming of / Moonlight, they light on the petals; / All is revealed to them; / All!-from the sunniest / Tips to the honiest / Heart, whence they yield to them / Spice, through the darkness that settles.
10. adjective

    Of a pale yellow to brownish-yellow color, like most types of honey.