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

The receptacle for honey in a honeybee.

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.

Soft to sweet in speech; persuasive.

Sweet as honey.

Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive.

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.

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).

The honey guide.

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

Formed or perforated like a honeycomb.

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.

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.

Covered with honey.

Destitute of honey.

The first month after marriage.

See Mellite.

See Honey eater.

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

Covered with honeysuckles.

See Badderlocks.

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

To hang.

See Honeyed.

To make a sound like the honk of a goose.

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

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

Pertaining to or resembling a honky-tonk.

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.

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

The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction.

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

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

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

of high repute; -- of people.

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

One who honors.

Conferring honor; tending to honor.

Destitute of honor; not honored.

Same as honor; -- chiefly British usage.

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

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

See under Hunt.

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

See Army organization, above.

See Ho.

an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor.

Same as hoodlum.

See Hooded seal, under Hooded.

Covered with a hood.

Having no hood.

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

The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind.

An old term for blindman's buff.

A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape.

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

To blind by covering the eyes.

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

To walk as cattle.

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

a professional dancer, especially a tap dancer.

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

Destitute of hoofs.

resembling a hoof.

a visible impression on a surface made by the hoof of an animal.

To bend; to curve as a hook.

A firefighting truck equipped with a ladder extendable to great length, for access to the upper stories of buildings; it also carries other firefighting equipment; called also ladder truck.

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

Having a strongly curved bill.

Having a hooked or aquiline nose.

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.

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

The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

One who, or that which, hooks.

See Hockey.

A little hook.

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.

Whole.

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

Home.

An Indian monkey. See Entellus.

A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.

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

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.

The game of basketball.

a skirt stiffened with hoops.

A basketball player.

a jail.

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

A derisive cry or shout.

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

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

the nose.

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

a kind of vacuum cleaner.

to clean with a vacuum cleaner.

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

to jump lightly.

See Hop-o'-my-thumb.

A very diminutive person.

a short distance; as, it's just a hop, skip and a jump away.

The climbing stem of the hop.

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.

expected and desired. Contrasted with unexpected.

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

In a hopeful manner.

A hydrous phosphate of zinc in transparent prismatic crystals.

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

One who hopes.

In a hopeful manner.

A heavy-armed infantry soldier.

Impregnated with hops.

One who, or that which, hops.

An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow iron box, containing kerosene or coated with tar or other sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels.

Gravel retaining in the hopper of a cradle.

An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as /dancing (on the wave)/; by others as /opposing,/ /warlike./

A hand basket; also, a dish used by miners for measuring ore.

A gathering of hops.

A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Same as Hobblebush.