| hone | To pine; to lament; to long. Origin: Etymology uncertain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| honest | 1. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. "Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching!" (Shak) 2. Characterised by integrity or fairness and straightforwardness 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. "An honest man's the noblest work of God." (Pope) "An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health." (Sir W. Temple) "Look ye out among you seven men of honest report." (Acts vi. 3) "Provide things honest in the sight of all men." (Rom. Xii. 17) 3. Open; frank; as, an honest countenance. 4. Chaste; faithfuk; virtuous. "Wives may be merry, and yet honest too." (Shak) Synonym: Upright, ingenuous, honorable, trusty, faithful, equitable, fair, just, rightful, sincere, frank, candid, genuine. Origin: OE. Honest, onest, OF. Honeste, oneste, F. Honnete, L. Honestus, fr. Honos, honor, honor. See Honor. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| honesty | 1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. "She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness." (Shak) 2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. "That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty." (1 Tim. Ii. 2) 3. Chastity; modesty. "To lay . . . Siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife." (Shak) 4. <botany> 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. Synonym: Integrity, probity, uprightness, trustiness, faithfulness, honor, justice, equity, fairness, candor, plain-dealing, veracity, sincerity. Origin: OE. Honeste, oneste, honor, OF. Honeste, oneste (cf. F. Honnetete), L. Honestas. See Honest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| honewort | <botany> An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S.Amomum); so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| honey | 1. A sweet viscid fluid, especially. That collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. 2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. "The honey of his language." (Shak) 3. Sweet one; a term of endearment. "Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus." (Shak) Honey is often used adjectively or as the first part of compound; as, honeydew or honey dew; honey guide or honeyguide; honey locust or honey-locust. Honey ant, one of numerous species of small passerine birds of the family Meliphagidae, abundant in Australia and Oceania; called also honeysucker. <botany> Honey flower, the ratel. Origin: OE. Honi, huni, AS. Hunig; akin to OS. Honeg, D. & G. Honig, OHG. Honag, honang, Icel. Hunang, Sw. Haning, Dan. Honning, cf. Gr. Dust, Skr. Kaa grain. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| honey urine | An obsolete term for diabetes mellitus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| honey-bag | <zoology> The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| honeybee | <zoology> Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, especially. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| honeybird | <zoology> The honey guide. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| honeycomb | 1. A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs. 2. Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc, perforated with cells like a honeycomb. <anatomy> Honeycomb moth See Reticulum. Origin: AS. Hunigcamb. See Honey, and 1st Comb. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| honeycomb lung | <radiology> Mnemonic: honey and SPICE, sarcoid, pneumoconiosis, interstitial fibrosis, collagen-vascular disease, eosinophilic granuloma, ** see also: interstitial lung disease, honeycombing (12 Dec 1998) |
| honeycomb macula | Oedema of the macular region of the retina. (05 Mar 2000) |
| honeycomb pattern | Dense, slightly irregular circular shadows, most common next to the pleura at the lung base, on chest radiographs or CT; caused by chronic interstitial fibrosis of diverse causes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| honeycomb ringworm | 1. <dermatology> A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite. 2. A tile or flagstone cut into an hexagonal shape to produce a honeycomb pattern, as in a pavement. Synonym: favas and sectila. Origin: L, honeycomb. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| honeycombing | <radiology> Better mnemonic: H: histiocytosis X, O: occupational disease (pneumoconiosis, farmer's lung), N: neurofibromatosis, E: extrinsic allergic alveolitis, Y: idiopathic, C: collagen vascular disease, O: oh no, M: medicines, B: bronchiectasis, S: sarcoid, ** see honeycomb lung (12 Dec 1998) |