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n. [ Aëro- + Gr. &unr_; voice. ] (a) A form of combined speaking and ear trumpet. (b) An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. any one of two or more speech sounds that considered variants of the same phoneme. For example, the p sounds of pin and spin are allophones of p; and the t sounds of toe stop and catnip are allophones of t. [ PJC ]

n. (Mus.) The response which one side of the choir makes to the other in a chant; alternate chanting or signing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. antiphonaire. See Antiphon. ] A book of antiphons. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖‖ } n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_; a tube. ] (Zool.) A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. audire to hear + Gr. &unr_; sound. ] An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; that may be increased + &unr_; sound, voice. ] A pneumatic reproducer for a phonograph, controlled by the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. bi`os life + photo + fwnh` sound, voice. ] An instrument combining a cinematograph and a phonograph so that the moving figures on the screen are accompanied by the appropriate sounds; -- an archaic term replaced by movie projector. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Music) a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ L. dehonestatus, p. p. of dehonestare to dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see Honest. ] To disparage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dehonestatio. ] A dishonoring; disgracing. [ Obs. ] Gauden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. dens, dentis, tooth + Gr. fwnh` sound. ] An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve; an audiphone. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dictate + -phone, as in telephone. ] A form of phonographic recorder and reproducer adapted for use in dictation, as in business. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. dis- + honest: cf. F. déshonnête, OF. deshoneste. ] 1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [ the women ]. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears,
Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust. [ 1913 Webster ]

To get dishonest gain. Ezek. xxii. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dishonest profits of men in office. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. OF. deshonester. ] To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I will no longer dishonest my house. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dishonest manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. deshonesté, F. déshonnêteté. ] 1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. [ Obs. ] “The hidden things of dishonesty.” 2 Cor. iv. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Violation of trust or of justice; fraud; any deviation from probity; a dishonest act. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Lewdness; unchastity. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; a thing called out, fr. &unr_; to cry out; 'ek out + &unr_; voice. ] (Rhet.) A breaking out with some interjectional particle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Ecphonema. ] A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Ecphonema. ] (Rhet.) An animated or passionate exclamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various. Gibbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Electro- + Gr. fwnh` sound. ] (Physics) An instrument for producing sound by means of electric currents. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. 'epifw`nhma, fr. 'epifwnei^n to mention; 'epi` + fwnei^n to speak. ] (Rhet.) An exclamatory sentence, or striking reflection, which sums up or concludes a discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Epiphonema. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Able to communicate in the French language; -- used especially of those whose native language is French.
Syn. -- French-speaking. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a thing drawn or written (fr. &unr_; write) + -phone, as in telephone. Originally a trademark. ] An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducing sounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in some solid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a system attached to an elastic diaphragm. This older term is almost completely replaced for modern devices by the word phonograph (or hi-fi), and technological changes have made the term sound antiquated, and it is usually used to refer to older non-electronic versions of the phonograph. [ obsolescent ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; to write + -phone, as in telephone. ] A kind of photograph. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous. ] 1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. Gliddon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.

v. i. [ Cf. F. honger to grumble. √37. ] To grumble; pine; lament; long. [ Dial.Eng. & Southern U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. Icel. hūn a knob. ] A kind of swelling in the cheek. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hān; akin to Icel. hein, OSw. hen; cf. Skr. çā&nsdot_;a, also çō, çi, to sharpen, and E. cone. √38, 228. ] A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone. Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hone slateSee Polishing slate. --
Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Honed p. pr. & vb. n. Honing. ] 1. To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to render more precise or more effective; as, to hone one's skills. [ PJC ]

a. [ OE. honest, onest, OF. honeste, oneste, F. honnête, L. honestus, fr. honos, honor, honor. See Honor. ] 1. Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Characterized 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

An honest man's the noblest work of God. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

An honest physician leaves his patient when he can contribute no farther to his health. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

Look ye out among you seven men of honest report. Acts vi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Provide things honest in the sight of all men. Rom. xii. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Open; frank; as, an honest countenance. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Chaste; faithful; virtuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. Shak.

Syn. -- Upright; ingenuous; honorable; trusty; faithful; equitable; fair; just; rightful; sincere; frank; candid; genuine. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. honestare to clothe or adorn with honor: cf. F. honester. See Honest, a. ] To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable. [ Obs. ] Abp. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of honesting; grace; adornment. [ Obs. ] W. Montagu. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Honesty; honorableness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Honorably; becomingly; decently. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To come honestly by. (a) To get honestly. (b) A circumlocution for to inherit; as, to come honestly by a feature, a mental trait, a peculiarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF. honesté, onesté (cf. F. honnêteté), L. honestas. See Honest, a. ] 1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. [ 1913 Webster ]

That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. 1 Tim. ii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Chastity; modesty. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) 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; Lunaria rediva is perennial honesty.

Syn. -- Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness; faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor; plain-dealing; veracity; sincerity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (Sison Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. honi, huni, AS. hunig; akin to OS. honeg, D. & G. honig, OHG. honag, honang, Icel. hunang, Sw. håning, Dan. honning, cf. Gr. ko`nis dust, Skr. ka&nsdot_;a grain. ] 1. A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. [ 1913 Webster ]

The honey of his language. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Sweet one; -- a term of endearment. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Honey ant (Zool.), a small ant (Myrmecocystus melliger), found in the Southwestern United States, and in Mexico, living in subterranean formicares. There are larger and smaller ordinary workers, and others, which serve as receptacles or cells for the storage of honey, their abdomens becoming distended to the size of a currant. These, in times of scarcity, regurgitate the honey and feed the rest. --
Honey badger (Zool.), the ratel. --
Honey bear. (Zool.) See Kinkajou. --
Honey buzzard (Zool.), a bird related to the kites, of the genus Pernis. The European species is Pernis apivorus; the Indian or crested honey buzzard is Pernis ptilorhyncha. They feed upon honey and the larvæ of bees. Called also bee hawk, bee kite. --
Honey guide (Zool.), one of several species of small birds of the family Indicatoridæ, inhabiting Africa and the East Indies. They have the habit of leading persons to the nests to wild bees. Called also honeybird, and indicator. --
Honey harvest, the gathering of honey from hives, or the honey which is gathered. Dryden. --
Honey kite. (Zool.) See Honey buzzard (above). --
Honey locust (Bot.), a North American tree (Gleditschia triacanthos), armed with thorns, and having long pods with a sweet pulp between the seeds. --
Honey month. Same as Honeymoon. --
Honey weasel (Zool.), the ratel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Honeyed p. pr. & vb. n. Honeying. ] To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. “Honeying and making love.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rough to common men,
But honey at the whisper of a lord. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canst thou not honey me with fluent speech? Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. Shak. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -berries. 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). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) The honey guide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hunigcamb. See Honey, and 1st Comb. ] 1. A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Honeycomb moth (Zool.), the wax moth. --
Honeycomb stomach. (Anat.) See Reticulum. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Formed or perforated like a honeycomb. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each bastion was honeycombed with casements. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Any of a number of small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands belonging to the subfamily Drepanidae.
Syn. -- Hawaiian honeycreeper. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. any of numerous species of small, bright, colored, passerine birds of the family Cœrebidæ, related to the tanagers and wood warblers, abundant in Central and South America; they are songbirds with a curved bill for sucking nectar. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]