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Honest

To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.

Honestly

Honorably; becomingly; decently.

Honesty

Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.

Honewort

An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (Sison Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.

Honey

To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.

honey creeper honeycreeper

Any of a number of small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands belonging to the subfamily Drepanidae.

honey flower honeyflower

An erect bushy shrub (Lambertia formosa) of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar.

Honey-bag

The receptacle for honey in a honeybee.

honey-eater honey eater

One of numerous species of small passerine birds of the family Meliphagid/ having tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar, abundant in Australia and Oceania; -- called also honeysucker.

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 (Apis ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (Apis 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.

Honeyberry

The fruit of either of two trees having sweetish berries: (a) An Old World hackberry (Celtis australis). (b) In the West Indies, the genip (Melicocca bijuga).

Honeycomb

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

Honeydew

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.

Honeydew melon

A type of winter melon (Cucumis melo inodorus) related to the muskmelon (Cucumis melo reticulatus), but having a smooth pale yellowish-green rind and sweet, juicy, light green flesh. It is slightly ovoid in shape, commonly about 8 to 10 inches long on the long axis.

Honeysuckle

One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance.

Honeywort

A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees.

Honk

To make a sound like the honk of a goose.

honker

The nose; -- an informal terms used in the U. S.

honky

A white (caucasian) person; -- a term used by some African-Americans, intended to be disparaging and often taken as offensive.

honky-tonk

Pertaining to or resembling a honky-tonk.

Honor

To regard or treat with honor, esteem, or respect; to revere; to treat with deference and submission; when used of the Supreme Being, to reverence; to adore; to worship.

Honorable

Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious.

Honorableness

The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction.

Honorably

In an honorable manner; in a manner showing, or consistent with, honor.

Honorary

Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services.

Honorary Honorarium

A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars.

honored

of high repute; -- of people.

honoree

a recipient of honors in recognition of noteworthy accomplishments. Correlative of honorer or conferrer.

honour

Same as honor; -- chiefly British usage.

honours

A university degree with honors; -- a term used in Great Britain.

Honshu

the main island of Japan. Together with the islands of Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku it forms the bulk of the land area of Japan.

Honved

The Hungarian army in the revolutionary war of 1848-49.

hooch

an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.

Hood

Same as hoodlum.

Hoodcap

See Hooded seal, under Hooded.

Hoodlum

A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow; colloquially, called also hood.

Hoodman

The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind.

Hoodoo

A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape.

hoodooism

Voodoo, a form of religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (esp. Haiti); it involves witchcraft and animistic deities.

Hoody

The hooded crow; also, in Scotland, the hooded gull.

Hoof

To walk as cattle.

Hoofbound

Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness.

hoofer

a professional dancer, especially a tap dancer.

hoofing

a dance in which the steps are more important than gestures or postures.

Hook

To bend; to curve as a hook.

hook-and-ladder company

A company of firefighters who operate a hook-and-ladder truck; a fire company; called also ladder company.

Hookah

A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water. Also called narghile and water pipe. The hubble-bubble is a simple form of this device.

Hooked

Having the form of a hook; curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

Hookedness

The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

Hooker

One who, or that which, hooks.

Hooky

A word used only in the expression to play hooky, to be truant, to run away; -- used mostly of youths absent from school without a valid reason and without the knowledge of their parents. Also (figuratively and jocosely), to be absent from duty for frivolous reasons.

Hoolock

A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam.

Hoop

A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

Hooper

The European whistling, or wild, swan (Olor cygnus); -- called also hooper swan, whooping swan, and elk.

Hoopoo Hoopoe

A European bird of the genus Upupa (Upupa epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure, and a slender down-curving bill. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

hoops

The game of basketball.

Hoosier

A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.

Hoot

A derisive cry or shout.

Hoot down

To shout down; to cause (a speaker) to cease trying to speak by loud derisive shouts.

hootenanny

An informal social gathering or concert featuring mostly folk songs, sometimes dancing, and where the audience often participates in the singing.

Hoove

A disease in cattle consisting in inflammation of the stomach by gas, ordinarily caused by eating too much green food; tympany; bloating.

Hoover

a kind of vacuum cleaner.

hoover

to clean with a vacuum cleaner.

Hop

To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]

Hope

To desire with expectation or with belief in the possibility or prospect of obtaining; to look forward to as a thing desirable, with the expectation of obtaining it; to cherish hopes of.

hoped-for

expected and desired. Contrasted with unexpected.

Hopeful

Full of hope, or agreeable expectation; inclined to hope; expectant.

Hopeite

A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.

Hopeless

Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.

Hoplite

A heavy-armed infantry soldier.

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