honey

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

The honey in the pot should last for years.

A variety of this substance.

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...

Nectar.

Something sweet or desirable.

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

A term of affection.

Honey, would you take out the trash?

Honey, I'm home.

Involving or resembling honey.

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.

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

Then I looked close at the scalp he stroked, which was of the silkiest blonde. For a moment I was sure it come from Olga’s dear head, and reckoned also he had little Gus’s fine skull-cover someplace among his filthy effects, the stinking old savage, living out his life of murder, rapine, and squalor, and I almost knifed him before I collected myself and realized the hair was honeyer than my Swedish wife’s.

Honey-sweet.

But he answered the question with the honiest—Bohemian honey—of smiles: […]

Mais il se ravisa et revint dire, de son air bonhomme : « Écoutez donc Lantier, j’ai besoin d’un homard…[…] »

To sweeten; to make agreeable.

To add honey to.

To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments.

Honeying and making love.

To be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.

[O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.