Word Meanings - HONEYCOMB - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs. 2. Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb. Honeycomb moth
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1. A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs. 2. Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb. Honeycomb moth , the wax moth. -- Honeycomb stomach. See Reticulum.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - 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. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - EAST INDIAN
Belonging to, or relating to, the East Indies. -- n. - 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. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - TRIPLE-HEADED
Having three heads; three-headed; as, the triple-headed dog Cerberus. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - PERFORATA
A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa. A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - TRIPLE
1. Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie. By thy triple shape as thou art seen. Dryden. 2. Three times repeated; treble. See Treble. 3. One of three; third. Shak. Triple crown, the crown, - HEXAGONALLY
In an hexagonal manner. - EAST-INSULAR
Relating to the Eastern Islands; East Indian. Ogilvie. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - PIECER
1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads. - FORME
See PATTé - FORMEDON
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good. - MALCONFORMATION
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume.