hone | (noun) a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors | - |
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(noun) a tool consisting of a number of fine abrasive slips held in a machine head, rotated and reciprocated to impart a smooth finish to cylinder bores, etc. | - |
(verb) make perfect or complete | Synonyms: perfect |
(verb) sharpen with a hone | - |
honest | (adjective) not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; marked by truth | Synonyms: honorable |
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(adjective) gained or earned without cheating or stealing | Synonyms: fair |
(adjective) not forged | Synonyms: good |
(adjective) without dissimulation; frank | - |
(adjective) worthy of being depended on | Synonyms: dependable, reliable, true |
(adjective) without pretensions | - |
honestly | (adverb) (used as intensives reflecting the speaker's attitude) it is sincerely the case that | Synonyms: candidly, frankly |
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(adverb) in an honest manner | Synonyms: aboveboard |
honestness | (noun) the quality of being honest | Synonyms: honesty |
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honesty | (noun) the quality of being honest | Synonyms: honestness |
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(noun) southeastern European plant cultivated for its fragrant purplish flowers and round flat papery silver-white seedpods that are used for indoor decoration | Synonyms: Lunaria annua, money plant, satin flower, satinpod, silver dollar |
honey | (adjective) of something having the color of honey | - |
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(noun) a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees | - |
(noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
(verb) sweeten with honey | - |
honeybee | (noun) social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces | Synonyms: Apis mellifera |
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honeybells | (noun) African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs | Synonyms: Hermannia verticillata, honey bell, Mahernia verticillata |
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honeycomb | (noun) a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees | - |
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(noun) a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae | - |
(verb) make full of cavities, like a honeycomb | - |
(verb) penetrate thoroughly and into every part | - |
(verb) carve a honeycomb pattern into | - |
honeycombed | (adjective) pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) | Synonyms: alveolate, cavitied, faveolate, pitted |
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honeycreeper | (noun) small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar | - |
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(noun) small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands | Synonyms: Hawaiian honeycreeper |
honeydew | (noun) a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap. | - |
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(noun) the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh | Synonyms: honeydew melon |
honeyed | (adjective) pleasing to the ear | Synonyms: dulcet, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet |
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(adjective) with honey added | Synonyms: honied, syrupy |
honeyflower | (noun) Australian shrub whose flowers yield honey copiously | Synonyms: honey-flower, Protea mellifera |
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(noun) erect bushy shrub of eastern Australia having terminal clusters of red flowers yielding much nectar | Synonyms: honey-flower, Lambertia formosa, mountain devil |
honeylike | (adjective) resembling honey | - |
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honeymoon | (noun) a holiday taken by a newly married couple | - |
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(noun) the early (usually calm and harmonious) period of a relationship; business or political | - |
(verb) spend a holiday after one's marriage | - |
honeymooner | (noun) someone recently married | Synonyms: newlywed |
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honeypot | (noun) South African shrub whose flowers when open are cup-shaped resembling artichokes | Synonyms: king protea, Protea cynaroides |
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honeysucker | (noun) Australasian bird with tongue and bill adapted for extracting nectar | Synonyms: honey eater |
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honeysuckle | (noun) shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera | - |
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(noun) columbine of eastern North America having long-spurred red flowers | Synonyms: Aquilegia canadensis, meeting house |
(noun) shrubby tree with silky foliage and spikes of cylindrical yellow nectarous flowers | Synonyms: Australian honeysuckle, Banksia integrifolia, coast banksia |