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honeysuckle|ˈhʌnɪsʌk(ə)l|
[ME. hunisuccle, -soukil, app. extended from hunisuce, honysouke: see honey-suck.]
1. A name for the flowers of clover, esp. the common red clover; also applied to other flowers yielding honey. Obs. exc. dial.
c1265Voc. Names Pl. in Wr.-Wülcker 558/15 Ligustrum, i. triffoil, i. hunisuccles. 1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. vi. (Skeat) l. 6 If thou shalt haue Honie soukels, thou leauest the fruict of the soure Docke. c1440Promp. Parv. 245/1 Hony socle, apiago. 1530Palsgr. 232/1 Honnysuckell, lait Nostre Dame. 1603Owen Pembrokesh. (1891) 72 Fine grasse full of the hearbe called Trifolium..and of the Countrie people honie suckles both white and red. 1626Bacon Sylva §496 Flowers that haue deepe Sockets, doe gather in the Bottome a kinde of Honey; As Honey-Suckles (both the Woodbine and the Trifoile). 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 87 Then Melfoil beat, and Honey-suckles pound, With these alluring Savours strew the Ground. 1879Britten & Holland Plant-n., Honeysuckle..(2) Lotus corniculatus. Ches... (4) Trifolium pratense... Mr. Elworthy says that in Som. the name is restricted to the flowers of T. pratense. (5) Rhinanthus Crista-galli.
†b. A rendering of L. locusta taken as the name of some plant; hence used by confusion where the real sense was ‘locust’ (the insect). Obs.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 5 Sum men seien þat locusta is a litil beest good to ete. Sum men seien it is an herbe þat gederitþ hony upon him; but it is licli þat it is an herbe þat mai nurishe men, þat þei clepen hony soukil. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 159 Som leueþ onliche by honysoukels [solis locustis vivunt] i-dryed wiþ smoke oþer wiþ þe sonne. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas vii. (1554) 172 b, Honisocles his moderate feedyng..This blessed Baptist. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 370 b/1 Takyng onelye for her refeccion honysocles and locustes. 1493Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 106 [Iohn the Baptist] sucked hony of floures that be called honysocles that poore people gadereth and frye theym in oyle to theyr mete.
2. The common name of Lonicera Periclymenum, also called Woodbine, a climbing shrub with fragrant yellowish trumpet-shaped flowers, frequent in woods; thence extended to the whole genus. fly-honeysuckle, the species L. Xylosteum and L. ciliata: see also 3. trumpet honeysuckle or coral honeysuckle, a North American species, L. sempervirens, with evergreen foliage and scarlet flowers.
1548[see 4]. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 82 a, Wodbynde or Honysuckle..windeth it self about busshes. 1590Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 47 So doth the woodbine, the sweet Honisuckle, Gently entwist. a1711Ken Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 10 Sweet Honeysuckles round the Branches twin'd. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., The Virginian scarlet honey-suckle, called the trumpet honey-suckle. 1796Withering Brit. Pl. (ed. 3) II. 247 Lonicera periclymenum,..Common Honeysuckle, Woodbine Honeysuckle. L. Xylosteum,..Upright Honeysuckle. 1890Chambers' Encycl. V. 763 The Fly Honeysuckle, Lonicera Xylosteum, is an erect shrub..common in shrubberies.
b. The flower of the woodbine.
1573–80Baret Alv. W 368 Woodbin that beareth the Honiesuckle. 1640Sicily & Naples (T.), A honey-suckle The amorous woodbine's offspring.
3. Applied, with or without qualifying word, to various shrubs or plants of other genera, in some way resembling the common honeysuckle.
a. Applied in Australia to species of Banksia, the flowers of which contain a sweet honey-like liquid, eagerly sucked out by the aborigines; also in N.S. Wales to the honeyflower, q.v.; in New Zealand to Knightia excelsa; in New England to species of Columbine, esp. the native species Aquilegia canadensis; in Jamaica to Passiflora laurifolia.
b. bush-honeysuckle, name for the shrubs of the genus Diervilla, nearly allied to the common honeysuckle, natives of N. America and Japan. dwarf honeysuckle, a species of Cornel, Cornus suecica, having berries like those of the honeysuckle. false honeysuckle, ‘the genus Azalea’ (Miller Plant-n.). fly-honeysuckle, a South African shrub of the genus Halleria (N.O. Scrophulariaceæ); see also 2, and fly n.1 11 b. French honeysuckle, name given to Hedysarum coronarium, a native of Italy, a leguminous plant, with flowers resembling those of the red clover (cf. 1). ground honeysuckle, a name for Bird's-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus. purple honeysuckle, a name for Rhododendron nudiflorum (Azalea nudiflora). red honeysuckle = French h.; also a name for red clover (see 1). Virgin Mary's honeysuckle, the Common Lungwort, Pulmonaria officinalis. West Indian honeysuckle, Tecoma (Tecomaria) capensis and various species of Desmodium. white honeysuckle, Rhododendron viscosum (Azalea viscosa); also white clover (see 1).
1592Greene Upst. Courtier B ij, A little dapper flowre, like a grounde Hunnisuckle, called thrift. 1629Parkinson Paradisus (1656) 340 The red Sattin flower, although some foolishly call it, the red or French Honysuckle. 1756P. Browne Jamaica 327 Passiflora foliis ovatis..The Honey⁓suckle..cultivated in many parts of America for the sake of its fruit: it is a climber. 1788Chambers' Cycl., Halleria..is called by some gardeners the African fly-honeysuckle, from its resemblance to the upright or fly-honeysuckle. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xxv. 366 French Honeysuckle which is distinguished..by its jointed, prickly, naked, straight legumes; its pinnate leaves. 1796Withering Brit. Pl. (ed. 3) II. 201 Cornus herbacea, dwarf honeysuckle, dwarf cornel. 1834Ross Van Diemen's L. Ann. 125 (Morris Austral Eng.) Some scattered honeysuckles, as they are called. 1861L. A. Meredith Over the Straits III. 78 A very singular and handsome species of Banksia (colonially termed Honeysuckle). 1873Gard. Chron. 26 Apr. 579/3 Virgin Mary's Honeysuckle.
4. A figure or ornament somewhat resembling a sprig or flower of honeysuckle: esp. in Arch.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 58 b, The apparell..was blacke velvet, covered all over with braunches of hony suckels of fyne flat gold. 1849Layard Nineveh II. 294 We have..in the earliest monuments of Nineveh, that graceful ornament, commonly called the honeysuckle, which was so extensively used in Greece. 1852–61Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict. VI. 27 Palmette{ddd}In England, by some authors and most workmen, the name Honeysuckle is given to it... It is a small ornament, one of those called running ornaments, and appears to be a diminutive of the Palm.
5. The colour of the flowers of the common honeysuckle: see quot.
1890Daily News 20 Nov. 2/1 A rich, soft silk of the colour known as ‘honeysuckle’, being a combination of pale pink and even paler yellow.
†6. fig. Applied to a person, as a term of praise or endearment. (Cf. honey n. 5.) Obs.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 36 Who would not thinke him perfect curtesie? Or the honny-suckle of humilitie? 1638Ford Fancies ii. ii, Yes, honeysuckle, and do as much for them one day.
†7. Honey ‘sucked’ or gathered by bees; = honey-suck 2. Obs. rare—1.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass vii. (1664) 81 Like an industrious Bee..can gather such Honey-suckle from the sweetest flowers.
8. attrib. and Comb., as honeysuckle arbour, honeysuckle colour; honeysuckle-apple, in New England, a fungus, Exobasidium Azaleæ, occurring on the branches of Rhododendron nudiflorum (Azalea nudiflora), and eaten by children (Cent. Dict.); honeysuckle clover, honeysuckle grass, names for white clover (Britten and H.); honeysuckle ornament = sense 4; honeysuckle-tree, (a) the common honeysuckle; (b) name for various Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Banksia; honeysuckle-trefoil, name for red clover.
1796Withering Brit. Pl. (ed. 3) III. 652 Purple Trefoil, Honeysuckle Trefoil, Cow Clover. 1852L. A. Meredith Home in Tasmania I. 164 (Morris) The honeysuckle-tree (Banksia latifolia)..the blossoms form cones..the size and shape of a large English teazel, and are of a greenish yellow... The honeysuckle trees grow to about thirty feet in height. 1862Chambers' Encycl. V. 621 The Honeysuckle ornament, so much used in Ionic architecture, is one of the features which indicate its eastern origin. 1892Daily News 29 Sept. 6/2 Brocade of honeysuckle colours. 1893Ibid. 14 Feb. 8/7 A Louis XIII dress in English-made honeysuckle brocade. |