honey moth

Entom.: Achroia grisella. 2204 is ten or twenty 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. It flowers from June to September. A cultivated variety is common in gardens. It is called also Woodbine (q. v.), and by Milton Twisted Eglantine. Loudon and others place the climbing species under the genus Caprifolium, and the up right ones under Lonicera, calling the Common Honeysuckle Caprifolium periclymenum . 2. Pharm.: The leaves of the honeysuckle are to a certain extent fetid, emetic, and drastically purgative, its flowers fragrant and sudorific. Trifolium pratense is called by some farmers a honeysuckle; Dwarf Honeysuckle is Cornus sue cica ; French Honeysuckle, Hedysarum coronari um; Heath Honeysuckle, Banksia serrata ; Virgin Mary's Honeysuckle, Pulmonaria officinal is : West Indian Honeysuckle, Tecoma capensis , Desmodium; and White Honeysuckle, Azalea viscosa . Not one honorable 8. One who or that which confers honor, esteem. glory, position, or respect; a source of glory or esteem. "The honor of his profe ion for integrity and learning."-Burnet: Theory of the Earth. *9. An ornament, a decoration. "[He] shook the sacred honors of his head." Dryden: Homer's Iliad, i. 10. A title of addre formerly given to men of rank generally, but now restricted to the holders of certain offices, as a County Court Judge, . "His honor and myself are at the one." Shakesp .: Richard 111. , iii. 2. 11. A verbal promise by which one ne pledges one's self by one's 's reputation to the truth of a statement. "My hand to thee, my honor on my promise." Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, i. 1. II. Technically : 1. Cards: One of the four highest trump-cards "If I prove honey - mouthed , let my tongue blister." honey-pore, s. Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, ii. 2. IMG:content-1247.png:[blocks in formation]