Word Meanings - HONEY-BAG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to HONEY-BAG)

• HONEYED
  1. Covered with honey. 2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. Milton.
• HONEYWORT
  A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon.
• HONEYSUCKLE
  One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds;
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• HONEYWARE
  See BADDERLOCKS
• HONEY
  G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. håning, Dan. honning, 1. A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. 2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. The
• HONEY-SWEET
  Sweet as honey. Chaucer.
• HONEY-BAG
  The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew.
• HONEYSTONE
  See MELLITE
• RECEPTACLE
  1. That which serves, or is used, fro receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository. O sacred receptacle of my joys! Shak. The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into
• HONEYBIRD
  The honey guide.
• HONEYBERRY
  having sweetish berries: An Old World hackberry . In the West Indies, the genip .
• HONEYCOMBED
  Formed or perforated like a honeycomb. Each bastion was honeycombed with casements. Motley.
• HONEYSUCKER
  See HONEY
• HONEYDEW
  1. 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. 2. A kind
• HONEYBEE
  Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee , and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered
• HONEYSUCKLED
  Covered with honeysuckles.
• HONEY-MOUTHED
  Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive. Shak.
• HONEYMOON
  The first month after marriage. Addison.
• HONEYLESS
  Destitute of honey. Shak.