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- English Word Hone Definition To pine; to lament; to long.
- English Word Hone Definition A kind of swelling in the cheek.
- English Word Hone Definition A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.
- English Word Hone Definition To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.
- English Word Honed Definition of Hone
- English Word Honest Definition Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
- English Word Honest Definition Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.
- English Word Honest Definition Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.
- English Word Honest Definition Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
- English Word Honest Definition To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.
- English Word Honestation Definition The act of honesting; grace; adornment.
- English Word Honestetee Definition Honesty; honorableness.
- English Word Honestly Definition Honorably; becomingly; decently.
- English Word Honestly Definition In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly.
- English Word Honesty Definition Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.
- English Word Honesty Definition The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
- English Word Honesty Definition Chastity; modesty.
- English Word Honesty Definition Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
- English Word Honewort Definition An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.
- English Word Honey Definition A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
- English Word Honey Definition That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
- English Word Honey Definition Sweet one; -- a term of endearment.
- English Word Honey Definition To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
- English Word Honey Definition To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
- English Word Honey-bag Definition The receptacle for honey in a honeybee.
- English Word Honey-mouthed Definition Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive.
- English Word Honey-sweet Definition Sweet as honey.
- English Word Honey-tongued Definition Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive.
- English Word Honeybee Definition Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.
- English Word Honeybird Definition The honey guide.