Honey Dew
a viscid saccharine exudation which is often found in warm dry weather on the leaves and stems of plants, occurring on both trees and herbaceous plants. It is often, but not always, associated with the presence of aphides, cocci, and other insects which feed on the juices of plants, and its flow is ascribed to their punctures; but the rupture of the tissues may be due to warm weather, when for the production of sap the superabundance of sugar is thus thrown off. Orange and lemon and coffee plantations sometimes suffer great injury from the abundance of honey dew.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Honey Eater
or HONEY SUCKER, the name of a large family of birds (Meliphagida), tribe Tenuirostres, order Insessores, characterized by their long, sharp, slender, curved bills, and their long cleft extensile tongue terminating in a pencil of bristle-like filaments. They are entirely confined to Australia and the islands included in the Australian region, where they are very abundant, living on honey and insects.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Honey Guide
a species of cuckoo, Cuculus indicator, which inhabits various parts of Africa, and is celebrated for its curious habit of guiding the natives to the nests of wild bees, by its peculiar cry.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Honey Springs
a locality in Kansas near Elk Creek, 25 miles S. of Fort Blunt. A sharp action of two hours' duration was fought here, July 17, 1863, between 6,000 Confederate troops under General Cooper, and 3,000 Union men ace. In English law a seigniory of commanded by General Blunt. The former suffered a defeat, leaving 150 men dead on the field, and 77 prisoners, besides suffering a loss of 400 men wounded. National loss 77 men, of whom 17 were killed.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Honey Stone
or MELLITE, a mineral of remarkable characters and composition, found in connection with brown coal, in several places in Germany. It occurs in square octahedrons, looks like a honey-yellow resin, and may be cut with a knife.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Honeycomb
the hexagonal cell formed by the hive bee for the reception of honey and for the eggs of the queen bee, and a habitation for the larva of the insect till reaching maturity.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Honeycomb Moth
in entomology, Galleria cerella, a small moth which does much damage in beehives, piercing the combs and building as it proceeds a single tube, covered with the excrement of the insect, and formed of the wax on which it feeds. Why the bees tolerate such a foe is a mystery.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Honeysuckle
or Woodbine, climbing or bushy shrubs with funnel-shaped, usually two-lipped flowers. In many species opposite leaves are united at their bases so that the stem seems to grow through the middle of the leaf. The honeysuckle of literature, or English woodbine, is a beautiful thicket climber with whorls of creamy, fragrant flowers. Shakespeare speaks of a bank "Quite o'er canopied with luscious woodbine," and Milton in his Lycidas mentions "The musk rose and the well attired woodbine." The American woodbine or trumpet honeysuckle is also a fine, fragrant climber, with white, purple-tubed flowers fully an inch in length. There are at least nine wild honeysuckles in the eastern part of the United States and Canada. There are a hundred species in the northern hemisphere . Columbines should not be called honeysuckles. There is no similarity or relationship.
Only in Aiton's Encyclopedia
Honeysuckle
in botany, the genus Lonicera. The common honeysuckle is L. periclymenum; the stem is 10 or 20 feet high, climbing; the corolla one to one and a half inches long, dirty-red outside, and yellow within. It is found in Europe and North Africa. A cultivated variety is common in gardens. It is called also woodbine and by Milton twisted eglantine.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Honiton
a town of Devonshire, England, near the left bank of the Otter. The famous Honiton pillow-lace, a manufacture introduced here by Flemish refugees in the middle of the 16th century, is still a specialty of the district.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Honor
a word of many applications. At cards one of the four highest trumpcards-viz., the king, queen, knave, or HONVÉD several manors, held under one baron or lord-paramount. At the English universities the first or highest class in an examination; examination; as, He went out in "honors." A debt of honor, a debt, as money lost in gambling, which cannot be recovered by legal process. A point of honor, a scruple arising from delicacy of feeling, on which depends the course to be pursued in certain cases. Word of honor, a verbal promise or engagement by which one pledges his honor or good faith. Court of honor, a court or tribunal for hearing and determining questions relating to the laws of honor. Honors of war, a distinction or privilege granted to a beaten enemy, as, to march out of a town, etc.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Honos
or HONOR, a Roman divinity, whose worship was intimately connected with that of Virtus. HONVÉD (hon-ved'), the name given in Hungary under the earlier kings to the national champions. In the summer of 1848 the term was revived, and applied first to the revolutionary armies, and after the organization of the Hungarian landwehr in 1868 to that body of men.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Hooch
or HOOGH (höh), Pieter de, one of the best Dutch painters in genre; He was peculiarly sucborn in 1630. cessful in depicting scenes, illuminated by sunlight, of Dutch domestic life. Many of his finest works are in British galleries. He died about 1681.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Hood
MOUNT, a mountain of the Cascade Range, situated on the western border of Wasco co., Ore. It is connected by rail with Hood river, by which Portland, Ore., can be reached. The mountain is 11,225 feet high. On its top is an observatory used by the Forest Rangers.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Hood
ROBIN, a chivalrous outlaw of the reign of Richard I. His exploits in Sherwood Forest are the subjects of many admired ballads. All the popular skill legends celebrate his generosity and in archery.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia
Hood (ALEXANDER an English naval)
ALEXANDER, an English naval officer; born in 1727. After service in the Mediterranean and Channel under Saunders and Hawke, he distinguished himself in 1760, while in command of the "Minerva," by recapturing from the French the "Warwick," a 60-gun ship, formerly English, but then armed with 34 guns. During the American War of Independence he served much under Keppel, Rodney, and Howe, in the Channel and the Strait of Gibraltar. He died May 3, 1814.
Only in Collier's New Encyclopedia