honey.html - The first happy period of friendship and cooperation between two persons or groups is over. * /A few months after a new President is elected, the honeymoon is over and Congress and the President begin to criticize each other./ * /The honeymoon was soon over for the new foreman and the men under him./

honey.html - n.
(pl. -eys)
1 a sweet sticky yellowish fluid made by bees and other insects from nectar collected from flowers.
2 the colour of this.
3 a sweetness. b a sweet thing.
4 a person or thing excellent of its kind.
5 esp. US (usu. as a form of address) darling, sweetheart.

honey-badger a ratel. honey-bee any of various bees of the genus Apis, esp. the common hive-bee (A. mellifera). honey-bun (or -bunch) (esp. as a form of address) darling. honey-buzzard any bird of prey of the genus Pernis feeding on the larvae of bees and wasps. honey-eater any Australasian bird of the family Meliphagidae with a long tongue that can take nectar from flowers. honey-fungus a parasitic fungus, Armillaria mellea, with honey-coloured edible toadstools. honey-guide 1 any small bird of the family Indicatoridae which feeds on beeswax and insects.
2 a marking on the corolla of a flower thought to guide bees to nectar. honey-parrot a lorikeet. honey-pot 1 a pot for honey.
2 a posture with the hands clasped under the hams.
3 something very attractive or tempting. honey sac an enlarged part of a bee's gullet where honey is formed. honey-sweet sweet as honey. [OE hunig f. Gmc]

honey.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a structure of hexagonal cells of wax, made by bees to store honey and eggs.
2 a a pattern arranged hexagonally. b fabric made with a pattern of raised hexagons etc.
3 tripe from the second stomach of a ruminant.
4 a cavernous flaw in metalwork, esp. in guns.

--v.

tr.
1 fill with cavities or tunnels, undermine.
2 mark with a honeycomb pattern. [OE hunigcamb (as HONEY, COMB)]

honey.html - n.
1 a sweet sticky substance found on leaves and stems, excreted by aphids.
2 a variety of melon with smooth pale skin and sweet green flesh.
3 an ideally sweet substance.
4 tobacco sweetened with molasses.

honey.html - adj.
(also honied)
1 of or containing honey.
2 sweet.

honey.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a holiday spent together by a newly married couple.
2 an initial period of enthusiasm or goodwill.

--v.

intr. (usu. foll. by in, at) spend a honeymoon.

honeymooner n. [HONEY + MOON, orig. with ref. to waning affection, not to a period of a month]