honeysucklen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈhʌnɪsʌkl/, U.S.

/ˈhəniˌsəkəl/

Forms: Middle English honisocle, Middle English honisoucle, Middle English honysikil, Middle English honysocul, Middle English honysokel, Middle English honysokkil, Middle English honysokkle, Middle English honysokle, Middle English honysokyl, Middle English honysokyll, Middle English honysoucle, Middle English honysoukel, Middle English honysoukil, Middle English honysoukle, Middle English honysoukyl, Middle English honysukkle, Middle English hunisuccle, Middle English–1500s honysocle, Middle English–1600s honysuckle, 1500s honnysuckell, 1500s honnysuckle, 1500s–1600s honiesuckle, 1500s–1600s honisuckle, 1500s–1600s honisucle, 1500s–1600s honysuccle, 1500s–1600s honysuckel, 1500s– honeysuckle, 1600s honiesuckel, 1600s honnisuckle, 1600s honysuckell, 1600s hunniesuckle, 1600s hunnisuckle, 1600s hunnysuckle; also Scottish 1700s hineysuckle, 1800s hinniesookie, 1800s– hinnysickle, 1900s– hinneysuckle, 1900s– hinniesickle.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: honeysuck n., -le suffix.

Etymology: Apparently < honeysuck n. + -le suffix. Perhaps compare other plant names ultimately showing the same suffix, as bramble n.¹, thistle n., nettle n., teasel n., etc. Perhaps compare also suckle v. In sense A. 2 originally translating classical Latin locusta locust n., in post-classical Latin occasionally misinterpreted as denoting a plant.

A. n.

I. As a plant or animal name.

1. Any of several herbaceous plants rich in nectar; esp. red clover, Trifolium pratense, and white clover, T. repens. Also: the flowers themselves. Cf. honeysuckle clover n. at Compounds 2. Now English regional.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > clover

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serradilla1846

honeysuck1854

ladino clover1924

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > of unidentified or unspecified type

honeysuckOE

honeysucklea1300

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flour-dammesa1522

ageratum1567

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a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 558/15 (MED) Ligustrum, i. triffoil, i. hunisuccles.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 245 Hony socle, apiago.

c1465 Care of Horses (Yale Beinecke 163) f. 51 Take a gode quantite of hony and gode quantite of hony-sokelis flouris and the water þ^t mollis haue ben sotyn yn.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/1 Honnysuckell, lait Nostre Dame.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclx If thou shalt haue hony soukels, thou leauest the frute of the soure docke.

1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 72 Fine grasse full of the hearbe called Trifolium..and of the Countrie people honie suckles both white and red.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §496 Flowers that haue deepe Sockets, doe gather in the Bottome a kinde of Honey; As Honey-Suckles (both the Woodbine and the Trifoile).

1746 T. Short Medicina Britannica 61 The common purple Meadow Trefoil, or Field Honey-suckle, and the white-flower'd Meadow trefoil.

1799 J. Aikin Nat. Hist. Year (ed. 3) 100. Of this plant [sc. clover] there are the varieties of white and purple; the latter of which is sometimes called honeysuckle.

1824 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis (ed. 2) 271 Trifolium repens. L. White Clover, or Honeysuckle.

1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Honeysuckle... (2) Lotus corniculatus. Ches.

1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 45 Honeysuckle, sb. the louse-wort; Pedicularis sylvatica.

†2. An item of food, variously understood to be a locust (locust n. 1) or an unidentified plant or flower, upon which John the Baptist is said to have fed in the wilderness. Cf. honeysuck n. 2. Obsolete.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > unidentified or variously identified plants > biblical, mythical, or plants of antiquity > [noun]

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Locustidae > member of (locust)

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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 159 Som leueþ onliche by honysoukels [L. solis locustis vivunt] i-dryed wiþ smoke oþer wiþ þe sonne.

a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 5 Sum men seien þat locusta is a litil beest good to ete; Sum men seien it is an herbe þat gederiþ hony upon him; but it is licli þat it is an herbe þat mai nurishe men, þat þei clepen hony soukil [a1425 Royal honysikil, a1500 Claud. honysokkil].

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. l. 1274 Honysokeles his moderat feedyng..This blissid Baptist.

a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 184 Ion..ete a maner of wormys þat byn noriched yn þat desert among erbys, and byn alsoo gret as a manys fyngyr, but somdele schorture, and sowkyth hony of flowrys, and beþ calyd honysoculs þe whech pore men gedyrth and fryeth yn oyle to hor fode.

a. A climbing shrub, Lonicera periclymenum (family Caprifoliaceae), of European woodlands, having yellow or pink trumpet-shaped flowers with a sweet fragrance; more fully common honeysuckle; also called woodbine. Also (frequently with distinguishing word): any of numerous other climbing plants and shrubs of the genus Lonicera, of Eurasia and North America.coral, fly, trumpet honeysuckle, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > honeysuckle or woodbine

honeysuckOE

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a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 29 (MED) Caprifolium, oculus lucii, perichenon, mater siluana, uolubilis maior idem. Gallice frestefoil, ace. wodebynde uel honisocles.

?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 126 Þe rote and þe leuis of þe reed honysokyl.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Cerinthe, an herbe called a honeysuckle.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 82 Wodbynde or Honysuckle..windeth it self about busshes.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 41 So doth the woodbine, the sweete Honisuckle, Gently entwist.

1659 Maze 82 The faithfull Elme supports the fruitfull Vine, The Honey-suckle clinges the Eglantine.

a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo i, in Wks. (1721) III. 10 Sweet Honey-Suckles round the Branches twin'd.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The Virginian scarlet honey-suckle, called the trumpet honey-suckle.

1835 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. I. 692/1 The common honeysuckle or woodbine has often been celebrated in poetry.

1892 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 252 Beautiful rose bushes and honeysuckle vines springing from the sands at Ocean Grove.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 100/2 He bought a pleasing assortment of ramblers, honeysuckles, spireas, etc.

1987 H. N. Mozingo Shrubs of Great Basin 246 Particularly abundant in the Lake Tahoe area, is the double honeysuckle, L. conjugalis.

2011 Observer Mag. (Nexis) 26 June 58 Honeysuckle, like roses and jasmine, is a plant that will weave romance into a garden.

b. Chiefly in plural. A flower of a Lonicera, esp. that of the common honeysuckle.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > honeysuckle or woodbine > flower of

honeysucklea1500

a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 135 (MED) Take hencressyn and þe croppys of wodebynd þat berith hony-sokles.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie W 345 Woodbind that beareth the honysuckle.

1640 S. Harding Sicily & Naples iii. v. 43 An hony-suckle, The amorous woodbindes off-spring.

1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian (new ed.) 212 Gargles likewise are made with Sage, Rosemary, Honeysuckles, and Plantane boyled in Wine or Water.

1748 J. Hervey Medit. (ed. 2) I. 151 You smell his Sweetness in the opening Honeysuckle.

1778 J. van Rymsdyk & A. van Rymsdyk Museum Britannicum p. ix Honeysuckles, and other innumerable Flowers, from whence the industrious..Bee, or studious Enquirer may Feed.

1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 193 Honeysuckles full of clear bee-wine.

1887 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 351 Roses and honeysuckles peeping in from the richly festooned pillars of the veranda.

1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies ii. 231 It [sc. the Hummingbird moth] flies rapidly and directly to the honeysuckles, and poises on vibrating, whirring wings before them.

2003 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 12 Nov. 1 jj The family played in Thrasher Park and took walks along Wingo Street to pick honeysuckles.

4. Frequently with distinguishing word. Any of various plants in some way resembling the common honeysuckle; esp.: (a) the water lemon, Passiflora laurifolia (more fully Jamaican honeysuckle); (b) Australian any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Banksia (family Proteaceae); (also) the mountain devil, Lambertia formosa; (c) North American the wild columbine, Aquilegia canadensis (family Ranunculaceae); (d) New Zealand the rewarewa, Knightia excelsa (more fully New Zealand honeysuckle); (also) the wood of this.bush, dwarf, false, French, ground, purple, red, Virgin Mary's, West Indian, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > passion-flowers

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New Zealand passion-flower1853

passion vine1853

the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian

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waratah1793

honeysuckle1803

pinkwood1824

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rose1825

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parrotbill1829

tulip-tree1830

whitebeard1832

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bauera1835

mungitec1837

bottlebrush1839

clianthus1841

glory-pea1848

boronia1852

koromiko1855

pituri1861

Sturt's pea1865

scrub vine1866

pea-bush1867

cotton-bush1876

Australian honeysuckle1881

peach myrtle1882

saloop bush1884

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dog rose1896

native tulip1898

snow bush1909

wedding-bush1923

Hebe1961

mountain pepper1965

1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 327 Passiflora foliis ovatis... The Honey-suckle..cultivated in many parts of America, for the sake of its fruit: it is a climber.

1787 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia 61 Upright honeysuckle. Azalea nudiflora.

1803 Sydney Gaz. 19 Mar. Timber in this colony includes..Box, Honeysuckle, Cedar, [etc.]

1833 H. Bourne Flores Poetici 77 The Aquilegia canadensis, or Wild Columbine..has often been called, though improperly, Wild Honeysuckle.

1839 W. Wakefield in N.Z. Jrnl. (1840) 5 May 3/2 A tree, called by the English here, the honeysuckle furnishes excellent wood for boat-building.

1889 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 1888 3 2nd Ser. 521 Lambertia formosa... ‘Honey flower’ or ‘Honeysuckle’.

1932 Cairns (Austral.) Post 7 June 9/1 In New South Wales, Banksia serrata is called red honeysuckle, while its popular name in Victoria is saw Banksia or beach honeysuckle.

1979 B. Matthews Growing Native Plants ii. 18 Knightia excelsa... Rewa rewa, N.Z. honeysuckle.

2001 J. B. Moyle & E. W. Moyle Northland Wildflowers 122/1 Columbine refers to the resemblance of the flowers to a flock of doves... Also called Honeysuckle.

2009 M. Castleman All New Healing Herbs 358/1 Passifloraceae..members include granadilla, sweet calabash, and Jamaican honeysuckle.

II. Extended uses.

5. Decorative Arts and Architecture. A representation of a honeysuckle; a motif or ornamental figure resembling a sprig or flower of honeysuckle.Sometimes used to denote the stylized lotus flowers of the anthemion.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > flowers

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > fruit or flowers

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1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lviii^v The apparell..was blacke veluet, couered all ouer with braunches of hony suckels of fyne flat gold.

1770 A. Young Six Months Tour North Eng. I. iii. 143 Her ladyship's reading closet is..hung with a painted sattin, and the ceiling in Mosaics festooned with honeysuckles.

1786 R. P. Knight Acct. Worship of Priapus 92 One of these [ornaments], which occurs most frequently, is that which Architects call the Honey-suckle.

1827 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 396/1 The upper story has no columns; it is adorned with honeysuckles on every face.

1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains II. ii. iii. 294 We have..in the earliest monuments of Nineveh, that graceful ornament, commonly called the honeysuckle, which was so extensively used in Greece.

1892 R. S. Burn Ornamental Draughtsman & Designer 52 The ornament known as the honeysuckle, technically the ‘anthemion’, is very much used by the Greeks..in their architecture and on their pottery.

1922 J. S. Gardner Ironwork x. 155 The pair of lamp-holders in John Street, Adelphi, each comprising three repeats of the honeysuckles on a central stem, entirely of wrought iron.

1978 J. Jain & E. Fischer Jaina Iconogr. 9 The gateways..were crowned by honeysuckle and triratna, three-jewel motifs.

2007 M. Child Discovering Churches & Churchyards 154 The multi-lobed anthemion, or honeysuckle, the bay leaf and the lily were also commonly included in decorative arrangements.

a. figurative and in figurative contexts. A delightful or desirable person or thing; (in recent use) esp. with of and a noun denoting a person or thing that resembles a honeysuckle in attractiveness. Also formerly: †the best part of (obsolete).

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1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. D8 Sweete hony-suckle, whence all Poets sp'rites, Sucke the sweete honie of divine delightes.

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia i. sig. C3^v Who would not thinke him perfect curtesie? Or the honny-suckle of humilitie?

a1654 J. Murcot Several Wks. (1657) 634 Not only the commands but the promises: these indeed are the honey-suckles to dwell upon; these you shall find much refreshing in.

1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 35 My Alyson, who is in the very flower and prime of her time, the very Daisie and Honey-suckle of her time.

1838 Rural Repository 28 Apr. 182/2 The youth..need not now waste the honeysuckle of life..in the dark labyrinth of mathematics.

1843 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry (new ed.) I. 38 I'll warrant he didn't envy the king upon his throne, when he felt the honeysuckle of her breath.

1921 Poems by Brother & Sister 33 O Pedant, who would curb Within the strait formality of use The honeysuckle of a virgin muse.

1969 H. W. Morgan From Hayes to McKinley ii. vi. 241 His rhetoric exuded the honeysuckle of harmony and reunion.

2012 T. Gardner Relentless Love i. i. 19 The honeysuckle of mercy..must keep on growing in my life.

b. As a term of endearment or affectionate form of address: sweetheart, darling, honey.

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the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun]

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1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle ii. sig. D I pre'thee sit still hony-suckle.

1696 J. Harris City Bride ii. ii. 13 O my dear sweet Honey-suckle! Art thou alive? I am glad to see thee with all my Heart and Soul.

1730 H. Fielding Rape upon Rape ii. v. 23 Venus her self could not compare to thee, my little Honey-suckle.

1792 Duke & No Duke ii, in Coll. Farces V. 232 Poor dear little honey-suckle, how she sobs!

1840 W. Mudford Stephen Dugard ix. 107 And what did you do, my honeysuckle?

1888 Austral. Jrnl. Sept. 7/1 Hope to see you as usual next Sunday, my dear little honeysuckle.

1914 Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta June 287 Cally, Cally darling, what is muver's little honeysuckle doing?

2004 N. Minhas Passion & Poppadoms xxxiv. 452 Will you please tell the truth for once, Tom, darling, honeysuckle.

†7. Honey. Cf. honeysuck n. 3. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > nectar

mildeweOE

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1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse vii. f. 41^v Like an industrious Bee..can gather such honnisuckle from the sweetest flowers.

8. Any of various colours resembling those of the flowers of the common honeysuckle (sense A. 3a); esp. a pale, yellowish-pink, or a bright reddish-pink.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > other yellows

jessamy1728

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spiraein1868

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mimosa1909

1881 Centerville Appanoose (Iowa) Times 7 Apr. 1/6 Shades of honeysuckle will be used on new bonnets.

1890 Daily 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.

1923 Daily Mail 16 Apr. 1 (advt.) Colours:..Putty, Navy, Honeysuckle, Clematis.

1977 Western Morning News 30 Aug. 4/1 (advt.) Triumph Dolomite Sprint Automatic, Honeysuckle. Every conceivable extra.

2011 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 26 Jan. e1 You wouldn't catch me dead in yellow or bright blue, but I'd wear honeysuckle.

B. adj.

Resembling honeysuckle in colour, smell, or sweetness; sweetly-scented, desirable, or delightful. Cf. sense A. 6.

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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [adjective] > desirable

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1660 T. Forde Love's Labyrinth ii. iii. 20 in Virtus Rediviva (1661) Ha, my Carmela, let me kiss thy honysuckle lips.

1851 R. St. Clair Jones Brothers of Valencia iii. ii. 35 Cam...That awful phrase—a husband—stops my breath! Fer. And stops thy honeysuckle mouth—[kisses her.].

1907 M. P. Willcocks Wingless Victory xxxii. 362 The whole world of emotion which he thought gone for ever had come back at the sight, the touch, the honeysuckle breath of her.

1938 Boston Daily Globe 19 Oct. 11/4 ‘I beg your pardon,’ Leitha Leroy observed in her honeysuckle voice, ‘but I'm to have this studio for the ensuing 30 minutes.’

1965 H. Van Dyke Ladies of Rachmaninoff Eyes iii. ii. 192 She blissful and content, lifting her face to get a honeysuckle kiss.

2008 S. L. Carter Palace Council iii. 31 Her honeysuckle skin bespoke generations of careful breeding.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

(a) In senses of branch A. I. (chiefly sense A. 3a).

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1573 J. Partridge Treasurie Commodious Conceits lx. sig. D.vi^v Two spoonfull of Honysuckle water.

1655 Natura Exenterata 50 Take honysuckle leaves and sage, seeth them together in running water, and wash therewith.

1757 W. Thompson Poems Several Occasions 75 How sweet are Lover's Vows by Night, Lap'd in a Honey-suckle Grove!

1791 W. Roberts Fugitives iv. 75 You will find me in the honeysuckle arbour.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 690 A wood..which the old workman..has romanticised with..fifty seats and honeysuckle bowers.

1848 A. Somerville Autobiogr. Working Man iv. 56 They would halt to gather some of the honeysuckle flowers hanging overhead.

1873 Harper's New Monthly Mag. June 97/2 It was a sweet overpowering rush of honeysuckle scent coming from the deserted garden.

1892 Daily News 29 Sept. 6/2 Brocade of honeysuckle colours.

1927 A. R. Williams Russ. Land xi. 292 A perfume-laden breeze blowing from the honeysuckle bastion.

1944 San Antonio (Texas) Express 27 Mar. 7/3 The bride was given in marriage by her father. She wore a honeysuckle color, satin wedding dress.

1988 Mid-Atlantic Country Mar. 104/1 Four deer broke out of their bedding place in a still-green honeysuckle blind.

2007 National Trust Mag. Autumn 79/2 (caption) Hazel dormouse hibernating in a nest of shredded honeysuckle bark and leaves.

(b) In sense A. 5, as honeysuckle ornament, honeysuckle pattern, etc.

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1801 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 1007/1 To decorate which, are..entablatures in the Roman and Grecian ‘ways’; a modern honeysuckle parapet; [etc.].

1813 Times 13 Sept. 3/4 The corridors..are now embellished by panels in salmon colour, with dark mouldings and honeysuckle ornaments.

1884 Ann. Rep. Soc. Amer. Taxidermists 20 Humming bird screen with honeysuckle embroidery.

1895 A. C. Haddon Evol. in Art 156 Throughout the art of the civilised world of to-day we find..the misnamed honeysuckle pattern, or the anthemion, as it is preferable to call it.

1907 Cycl. India I. 88/1 (caption) The honeysuckle design on the ‘Lat’ at Allahabad.

1971 B. Cherry Pevsner's Surrey (rev. ed.) 194 Honeysuckle motifs were painted everywhere.

2000 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 16 Mar. e6 The pediment over the main portico..is further adorned by stylized honeysuckle ornaments called acroteria.

b. Instrumental, similative, and parasynthetic.

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1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iv. sig. H4^v I come, I come, more then most hunny-suckle sweete Ladies.

1830 Fraser's Mag. July 672/1 Often beside the honeysuckle festooned lattice I have sat, dreaming away the hour of summer twilight.

1862 St. James's Mag. 5 307 She was standing in the little honeysuckle-shaded porch, with Doggie at her feet.

1892 Ripon Millenary 154 King Alfred carried a tall wand, surmounted by a honeysuckle-shaped head.

1901 Sci.-gossip June 63/1 These lanceolate leaves were coloured honeysuckle-yellow.

1927 Passing Show Summer 60 The honeysuckle-starred summer-house where they had sat on that glamorous summer night.

1986 Econ. Bot. 40 93 Its exposed, honeysuckle-coloured..cortex is riddled by beetle larvae.

1990 News-Chron. (Shippensburg, Pa.) 12 Nov. a11/1 The first deer we spotted looked out of a honeysuckle-covered snag.

2008 S. McCoy Missing Persons iii. 40 Honeysuckle-scented air drifted into the room.

C2.

honeysuckle apple n. now rare a fungus, Exobasidium azaleae, occurring on the leaves of an azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides; (also) the plant itself.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > gall or abnormal growth > on particular plants

oak-apple1440

bedeguar1578

sponge1608

oak-berry1626

oak nut1626

Aleppo gall1698

grape-gall1753

rose gall1753

oak galla1774

ear cockle1777

honeysuckle apple1818

sage-apple1832

robin's pincushion1835

oak spangle1836

robin's cushion1837

oak-wart1840

spangle1842

shick-shack1847

spangle-gall1864

tomato gall1869

Robin redbreast's cushion1878

knopper1879

trumpet-gall1879

spongiole1884

knot-gall1894

1818 S. W. Williams Floral Cal. in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. (1819) 1 369 June..2. Honeysuckle apple (Azalea nudiflora) in full flower.

1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People xix. 209 She gathered..stores of what were called ‘honeysuckle apples’ that grew upon them [sc. azaleas],—fleshy exudations..much valued by children.

1919 Amer. Botanist Aug. 109 The honeysuckle apple on Azalea is gall-like but not a true gall.

honeysuckle clover n. now rare either of two clovers, red clover, Trifolium pratense, and white clover, T. repens; cf. sense A. 1.

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1760 J. Webb Catal. Seeds & Hardy Plants 6/1 Small perennial white honey-suckle clover, 10 pounds.

1882 R. Jefferies Bevis I. xiii. 218 There was one blue spot of veronica still,..besides the white honeysuckle clover at which the grey bees were busy.

1923 Boys' Workers Round Table Midsummer 29/1 If you are..near an open field or pasture, have the boys notice the common Red, Purple or Honeysuckle Clover.

2003 J. Eastman Bk. Field & Roadside 110 Clovers... Other names: Dutch clover, honeysuckle clover.

honeysuckle grass n. now rare white clover, Trifolium repens.

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?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 52 Take þe rede hony-suckle-gres, and do caste awey alle þe flour abowe.

1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue v. 202 But sow not the hony-suckle grasse in too moist a ground, for it liketh it not.

1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer 83 Ashes of Coal are esteem'd much beyond Wood-Ashes..and both produce Honeysuckle Grass in Meadows in abundance, if laid on about Christmas.

1810 W. Davies Gen. View Agric. N. Wales xii. 297 The burnt marl..causes grasses to vegetate that were uncommon to the soil before; especially white honey-suckle grass.

1900 Ann. Rep. Secretary State Hort. Soc. Mich. 1899 278 Honeysuckle grass..is the true shamrock of Ireland.

honeysuckle tree n. (a) = sense A. 3a; (b) Australian = sense A. 4(b).

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian

banksia1787

waratah1793

honeysuckle1803

pinkwood1824

honeysuckle tree1825

rose1825

blue bush1828

dogwood1828

parrotbill1829

tulip-tree1830

whitebeard1832

swamp-oak1833

bauera1835

mungitec1837

bottlebrush1839

clianthus1841

glory-pea1848

boronia1852

koromiko1855

pituri1861

Sturt's pea1865

scrub vine1866

pea-bush1867

cotton-bush1876

Australian honeysuckle1881

peach myrtle1882

saloop bush1884

naupaka1888

dog rose1896

native tulip1898

snow bush1909

wedding-bush1923

Hebe1961

mountain pepper1965

1718 J. Gardiner tr. R. Rapin Of Gardens (ed. 2) Index Second Book, at Woodbine Honeysuckle-Tree, famous for the Fragrancy of its Flowers.

1737 J. Brickell Nat. Hist. N.-Carolina 57 Four sorts of Honey-suckle Tree, or Woodbind.

1825 in B. Field Geogr. Mem. New S. Wales 501 Honey-suckle tree... Banksia integrifolia.

1931 M. M. Banks Memories Pioneer Days Queensland 77 The honeysuckle tree, a native Banksia, has dense, cylindrical, honey-coloured spikes amongst its silver-lined foliage.

2002 Internat. Jrnl. Classical Trad. 8 669 The planting of honeysuckle trees..eventually might have visually obliterated the structure.

honeysuckle trefoil n. now rare red clover, Trifolium pratense.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil

white clovereOE

cloverc1000

hare-foota1300

clerewort?a1400

clover-grassa1400

three-leaved grass14..

trefoilc1400

sucklingc1440

four-leaved grassc1450

trefle1510

Trifolium?1541

trinity grass1545

Dutch1548

lote1548

hare's-foot1562

lotus1562

triple grass1562

blain-grass1570

meadow trefoil1578

purple grass1597

purplewort1597

satin flower1597

cithyse1620

true-love grass?a1629

garden balsam1633

hop-clover1679

Burgundian hay1712

strawberry trefoil1731

honeysuckle trefoil1735

red clover1764

buffalo-clover1767

marl-grass1776

purple trefoil1785

white trefoil1785

yellow trefoil1785

sulla1787

cow-grass1789

strawberry-bearing trefoil1796

zigzag trefoil1796

rabbit's foot1817

lotus grass1820

strawberry-headed trefoil1822

mountain liquorice1836

hop-trefoil1855

clustered clover1858

alsike1881

mountain clover1882

knop1897

Swedish clover1908

sub clover1920

four-leaf clover1927

suckle-

1735 P. Miller Gardener's Dict. II. at Trifolium Common Meadow Trefoil, with a purple Flower, commonly call'd, Honeysuckle Trefoil.

1841 Visitor, or, Monthly Instructor Sept. 331/1 The common red clover, or honeysuckle trefoil..is one of the best known plants in farm fields.

1955 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Cheshire 106 67 By the early nineteenth century red clover or honeysuckle trefoil was much used in laying land down.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	honeysuckle
释义	honeysucklen.adj. Brit. /ˈhʌnɪsʌkl/, U.S. /ˈhəniˌsəkəl/ Forms: Middle English honisocle, Middle English honisoucle, Middle English honysikil, Middle English honysocul, Middle English honysokel, Middle English honysokkil, Middle English honysokkle, Middle English honysokle, Middle English honysokyl, Middle English honysokyll, Middle English honysoucle, Middle English honysoukel, Middle English honysoukil, Middle English honysoukle, Middle English honysoukyl, Middle English honysukkle, Middle English hunisuccle, Middle English–1500s honysocle, Middle English–1600s honysuckle, 1500s honnysuckell, 1500s honnysuckle, 1500s–1600s honiesuckle, 1500s–1600s honisuckle, 1500s–1600s honisucle, 1500s–1600s honysuccle, 1500s–1600s honysuckel, 1500s– honeysuckle, 1600s honiesuckel, 1600s honnisuckle, 1600s honysuckell, 1600s hunniesuckle, 1600s hunnisuckle, 1600s hunnysuckle; also Scottish 1700s hineysuckle, 1800s hinniesookie, 1800s– hinnysickle, 1900s– hinneysuckle, 1900s– hinniesickle. Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: honeysuck n., -le suffix. Etymology: Apparently < honeysuck n. + -le suffix. Perhaps compare other plant names ultimately showing the same suffix, as bramble n.¹, thistle n., nettle n., teasel n., etc. Perhaps compare also suckle v. In sense A. 2 originally translating classical Latin locusta locust n., in post-classical Latin occasionally misinterpreted as denoting a plant. A. n. I. As a plant or animal name. 1. Any of several herbaceous plants rich in nectar; esp. red clover, Trifolium pratense, and white clover, T. repens. Also: the flowers themselves. Cf. honeysuckle clover n. at Compounds 2. Now English regional. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fodder plants > [noun] > clover cloverc1000 honeysucklea1300 clover-grassa1400 three-leaved grass14.. sucklingc1440 white honeysuckle1657 suckle1709 serradilla1846 honeysuck1854 ladino clover1924 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > of unidentified or unspecified type honeysuckOE honeysucklea1300 floscampya1398 poppya1400 siphany1509 flour-dammesa1522 ageratum1567 rose of Sharon1585 belamour1595 sea violet1601 Bacchus-bole1725 eel-pout1736 torch-flower1849 a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 558/15 (MED) Ligustrum, i. triffoil, i. hunisuccles. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 245 Hony socle, apiago. c1465 Care of Horses (Yale Beinecke 163) f. 51 Take a gode quantite of hony and gode quantite of hony-sokelis flouris and the water þ^t mollis haue ben sotyn yn. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/1 Honnysuckell, lait Nostre Dame. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclx If thou shalt haue hony soukels, thou leauest the frute of the soure docke. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) 72 Fine grasse full of the hearbe called Trifolium..and of the Countrie people honie suckles both white and red. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §496 Flowers that haue deepe Sockets, doe gather in the Bottome a kinde of Honey; As Honey-Suckles (both the Woodbine and the Trifoile). 1746 T. Short Medicina Britannica 61 The common purple Meadow Trefoil, or Field Honey-suckle, and the white-flower'd Meadow trefoil. 1799 J. Aikin Nat. Hist. Year (ed. 3) 100. Of this plant [sc. clover] there are the varieties of white and purple; the latter of which is sometimes called honeysuckle. 1824 J. Bigelow Florula Bostoniensis (ed. 2) 271 Trifolium repens. L. White Clover, or Honeysuckle. 1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Honeysuckle... (2) Lotus corniculatus. Ches. 1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words 45 Honeysuckle, sb. the louse-wort; Pedicularis sylvatica. †2. An item of food, variously understood to be a locust (locust n. 1) or an unidentified plant or flower, upon which John the Baptist is said to have fed in the wilderness. Cf. honeysuck n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > unidentified or variously identified plants > biblical, mythical, or plants of antiquity > [noun] honeysucklea1387 heath1535 bulbine1548 tragium1567 alimon1572 behen1578 ephemeron1578 spattania1583 cassia1594 anacampserote1601 springwort1862 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Orthoptera > family Locustidae > member of (locust) grasshopOE langustec1200 skippera1325 locustc1350 honeysucklea1387 honeysucka1398 lungoutec1485 grasshopper1526 acrida1557 ophiomach1609 locustid1878 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 159 Som leueþ onliche by honysoukels [L. solis locustis vivunt] i-dryed wiþ smoke oþer wiþ þe sonne. a1425 J. Wyclif Sel. Eng. Wks. (1871) II. 5 Sum men seien þat locusta is a litil beest good to ete; Sum men seien it is an herbe þat gederiþ hony upon him; but it is licli þat it is an herbe þat mai nurishe men, þat þei clepen hony soukil [a1425 Royal honysikil, a1500 Claud. honysokkil]. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. l. 1274 Honysokeles his moderat feedyng..This blissid Baptist. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 184 Ion..ete a maner of wormys þat byn noriched yn þat desert among erbys, and byn alsoo gret as a manys fyngyr, but somdele schorture, and sowkyth hony of flowrys, and beþ calyd honysoculs þe whech pore men gedyrth and fryeth yn oyle to hor fode. 3. a. A climbing shrub, Lonicera periclymenum (family Caprifoliaceae), of European woodlands, having yellow or pink trumpet-shaped flowers with a sweet fragrance; more fully common honeysuckle; also called woodbine. Also (frequently with distinguishing word): any of numerous other climbing plants and shrubs of the genus Lonicera, of Eurasia and North America.coral, fly, trumpet honeysuckle, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > honeysuckle or woodbine honeysuckOE goat leafa1275 woodbinea1300 honeysucklea1400 suckle-bloom14.. bindc1440 goat's leaf1526 caprifoil1578 suckling1653 trumpet honeysuckle1731 white honeysuckle1731 dwarf honeysuckle1812 suckle1816 twinflower1836 fly-honeysuckle1861 linnaea1862 lonicera1863 swamp honeysuckle1958 a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 29 (MED) Caprifolium, oculus lucii, perichenon, mater siluana, uolubilis maior idem. Gallice frestefoil, ace. wodebynde uel honisocles. ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 126 Þe rote and þe leuis of þe reed honysokyl. 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Cerinthe, an herbe called a honeysuckle. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 82 Wodbynde or Honysuckle..windeth it self about busshes. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iv. i. 41 So doth the woodbine, the sweete Honisuckle, Gently entwist. View more context for this quotation 1659 Maze 82 The faithfull Elme supports the fruitfull Vine, The Honey-suckle clinges the Eglantine. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo i, in Wks. (1721) III. 10 Sweet Honey-Suckles round the Branches twin'd. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The Virginian scarlet honey-suckle, called the trumpet honey-suckle. 1835 C. F. Partington Brit. Cycl. Nat. Hist. I. 692/1 The common honeysuckle or woodbine has often been celebrated in poetry. 1892 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 252 Beautiful rose bushes and honeysuckle vines springing from the sands at Ocean Grove. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 100/2 He bought a pleasing assortment of ramblers, honeysuckles, spireas, etc. 1987 H. N. Mozingo Shrubs of Great Basin 246 Particularly abundant in the Lake Tahoe area, is the double honeysuckle, L. conjugalis. 2011 Observer Mag. (Nexis) 26 June 58 Honeysuckle, like roses and jasmine, is a plant that will weave romance into a garden. b. Chiefly in plural. A flower of a Lonicera, esp. that of the common honeysuckle. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > honeysuckle or woodbine > flower of honeysucklea1500 a1500 in G. Henslow Med. Wks. 14th Cent. (1899) 135 (MED) Take hencressyn and þe croppys of wodebynd þat berith hony-sokles. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie W 345 Woodbind that beareth the honysuckle. 1640 S. Harding Sicily & Naples iii. v. 43 An hony-suckle, The amorous woodbindes off-spring. 1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian (new ed.) 212 Gargles likewise are made with Sage, Rosemary, Honeysuckles, and Plantane boyled in Wine or Water. 1748 J. Hervey Medit. (ed. 2) I. 151 You smell his Sweetness in the opening Honeysuckle. 1778 J. van Rymsdyk & A. van Rymsdyk Museum Britannicum p. ix Honeysuckles, and other innumerable Flowers, from whence the industrious..Bee, or studious Enquirer may Feed. 1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 193 Honeysuckles full of clear bee-wine. 1887 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 351 Roses and honeysuckles peeping in from the richly festooned pillars of the veranda. 1901 M. C. Dickerson Moths & Butterflies ii. 231 It [sc. the Hummingbird moth] flies rapidly and directly to the honeysuckles, and poises on vibrating, whirring wings before them. 2003 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 12 Nov. 1 jj The family played in Thrasher Park and took walks along Wingo Street to pick honeysuckles. 4. Frequently with distinguishing word. Any of various plants in some way resembling the common honeysuckle; esp.: (a) the water lemon, Passiflora laurifolia (more fully Jamaican honeysuckle); (b) Australian any of various trees and shrubs of the genus Banksia (family Proteaceae); (also) the mountain devil, Lambertia formosa; (c) North American the wild columbine, Aquilegia canadensis (family Ranunculaceae); (d) New Zealand the rewarewa, Knightia excelsa (more fully New Zealand honeysuckle); (also) the wood of this.bush, dwarf, false, French, ground, purple, red, Virgin Mary's, West Indian, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > passion-flowers maracock1609 passion flower1633 Virginian climber1688 passion-tree1728 love-in-a-mist1731 honeysuckle1756 passiflora1760 passionwort1846 New Zealand passion-flower1853 passion vine1853 the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian banksia1787 waratah1793 honeysuckle1803 pinkwood1824 honeysuckle tree1825 rose1825 blue bush1828 dogwood1828 parrotbill1829 tulip-tree1830 whitebeard1832 swamp-oak1833 bauera1835 mungitec1837 bottlebrush1839 clianthus1841 glory-pea1848 boronia1852 koromiko1855 pituri1861 Sturt's pea1865 scrub vine1866 pea-bush1867 cotton-bush1876 Australian honeysuckle1881 peach myrtle1882 saloop bush1884 naupaka1888 dog rose1896 native tulip1898 snow bush1909 wedding-bush1923 Hebe1961 mountain pepper1965 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 327 Passiflora foliis ovatis... The Honey-suckle..cultivated in many parts of America, for the sake of its fruit: it is a climber. 1787 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia 61 Upright honeysuckle. Azalea nudiflora. 1803 Sydney Gaz. 19 Mar. Timber in this colony includes..Box, Honeysuckle, Cedar, [etc.] 1833 H. Bourne Flores Poetici 77 The Aquilegia canadensis, or Wild Columbine..has often been called, though improperly, Wild Honeysuckle. 1839 W. Wakefield in N.Z. Jrnl. (1840) 5 May 3/2 A tree, called by the English here, the honeysuckle furnishes excellent wood for boat-building. 1889 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 1888 3 2nd Ser. 521 Lambertia formosa... ‘Honey flower’ or ‘Honeysuckle’. 1932 Cairns (Austral.) Post 7 June 9/1 In New South Wales, Banksia serrata is called red honeysuckle, while its popular name in Victoria is saw Banksia or beach honeysuckle. 1979 B. Matthews Growing Native Plants ii. 18 Knightia excelsa... Rewa rewa, N.Z. honeysuckle. 2001 J. B. Moyle & E. W. Moyle Northland Wildflowers 122/1 Columbine refers to the resemblance of the flowers to a flock of doves... Also called Honeysuckle. 2009 M. Castleman All New Healing Herbs 358/1 Passifloraceae..members include granadilla, sweet calabash, and Jamaican honeysuckle. II. Extended uses. 5. Decorative Arts and Architecture. A representation of a honeysuckle; a motif or ornamental figure resembling a sprig or flower of honeysuckle.Sometimes used to denote the stylized lotus flowers of the anthemion. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pattern or design > [noun] > flowers flowerc1230 flourishingc1384 fleuronc1385 rose1415 pansyc1450 columbine1459 lily1459 fleur-de-lis1475 heartseasea1542 honeysuckle1548 flower-work1601 floretry1615 branching1652 fleuret1811 anthemion1816 rosace1823 fleur1841 flowering1862 flowerage1864 millefleurs1908 rosette1931 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > fruit or flowers lily-work1611 encarpa1662 rose1664 rosette1718 flower1730 corbeille1734 lotus1750 honeysuckle1770 pannier1781 lotus blossoma1794 lilying1874 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lviii^v The apparell..was blacke veluet, couered all ouer with braunches of hony suckels of fyne flat gold. 1770 A. Young Six Months Tour North Eng. I. iii. 143 Her ladyship's reading closet is..hung with a painted sattin, and the ceiling in Mosaics festooned with honeysuckles. 1786 R. P. Knight Acct. Worship of Priapus 92 One of these [ornaments], which occurs most frequently, is that which Architects call the Honey-suckle. 1827 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 396/1 The upper story has no columns; it is adorned with honeysuckles on every face. 1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains II. ii. iii. 294 We have..in the earliest monuments of Nineveh, that graceful ornament, commonly called the honeysuckle, which was so extensively used in Greece. 1892 R. S. Burn Ornamental Draughtsman & Designer 52 The ornament known as the honeysuckle, technically the ‘anthemion’, is very much used by the Greeks..in their architecture and on their pottery. 1922 J. S. Gardner Ironwork x. 155 The pair of lamp-holders in John Street, Adelphi, each comprising three repeats of the honeysuckles on a central stem, entirely of wrought iron. 1978 J. Jain & E. Fischer Jaina Iconogr. 9 The gateways..were crowned by honeysuckle and triratna, three-jewel motifs. 2007 M. Child Discovering Churches & Churchyards 154 The multi-lobed anthemion, or honeysuckle, the bay leaf and the lily were also commonly included in decorative arrangements. 6. a. figurative and in figurative contexts. A delightful or desirable person or thing; (in recent use) esp. with of and a noun denoting a person or thing that resembles a honeysuckle in attractiveness. Also formerly: †the best part of (obsolete). ΚΠ 1596 C. Fitzgeffry Sir Francis Drake sig. D8 Sweete hony-suckle, whence all Poets sp'rites, Sucke the sweete honie of divine delightes. 1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia i. sig. C3^v Who would not thinke him perfect curtesie? Or the honny-suckle of humilitie? a1654 J. Murcot Several Wks. (1657) 634 Not only the commands but the promises: these indeed are the honey-suckles to dwell upon; these you shall find much refreshing in. 1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 35 My Alyson, who is in the very flower and prime of her time, the very Daisie and Honey-suckle of her time. 1838 Rural Repository 28 Apr. 182/2 The youth..need not now waste the honeysuckle of life..in the dark labyrinth of mathematics. 1843 W. Carleton Traits & Stories Irish Peasantry (new ed.) I. 38 I'll warrant he didn't envy the king upon his throne, when he felt the honeysuckle of her breath. 1921 Poems by Brother & Sister 33 O Pedant, who would curb Within the strait formality of use The honeysuckle of a virgin muse. 1969 H. W. Morgan From Hayes to McKinley ii. vi. 241 His rhetoric exuded the honeysuckle of harmony and reunion. 2012 T. Gardner Relentless Love i. i. 19 The honeysuckle of mercy..must keep on growing in my life. b. As a term of endearment or affectionate form of address: sweetheart, darling, honey. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] darlingc888 belamy?c1225 culver?c1225 dearc1230 sweetheartc1290 heartc1300 sweetc1330 honeya1375 dovec1386 jewelc1400 birdc1405 cinnamonc1405 honeycombc1405 lovec1405 wantonc1450 mulling?a1475 daisyc1485 crowdy-mowdy?a1513 honeysop?a1513 powsowdie?a1513 suckler?a1513 foolc1525 buttinga1529 whitinga1529 beautiful1534 turtle-dove1535 soula1538 heartikin1540 bully?1548 turtle1548 lamba1556 nyletc1557 sweet-lovea1560 coz1563 ding-ding1564 pugs1566 golpol1568 sparling1570 lover1573 pug1580 bulkin1582 mopsy1582 chuck1589 bonny1594 chick1594 sweetikin1596 ladybird1597 angel1598 muss1598 pinkany1599 sweetkin1599 duck1600 joy1600 sparrowc1600 sucket1605 nutting1606 chuckaby1607 tickling1607 bagpudding1608 heartling1608 chucking1609 dainty1611 flittermouse1612 honeysuckle1613 fubs1614 bawcocka1616 pretty1616 old thinga1625 bun1627 duckling1630 bulchin1633 bulch?c1640 sweetling1648 friscoa1652 ding-dongs1662 buntinga1668 cocky1680 dearie1681 chucky1683 lovey1684 machree1689 nykin1693 pinkaninny1696 nug1699 hinny1724 puss1753 pet1767 dovey1769 sweetie1778 lovey-dovey1781 lovely1791 ducky1819 toy1822 acushla1825 alanna1825 treat1825 amigo1830 honey child1832 macushla1834 cabbage1840 honey-bunch1874 angel pie1878 m'dear1887 bach1889 honey baby1895 prawn1895 hon1896 so-and-so1897 cariad1899 pumpkin1900 honey-bun1902 pussums1912 snookums1919 treasure1920 wogger1922 amico1929 sugar1930 baby cake1949 angel cake1951 lamb-chop1962 petal1974 bae2006 1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle ii. sig. D I pre'thee sit still hony-suckle. 1696 J. Harris City Bride ii. ii. 13 O my dear sweet Honey-suckle! Art thou alive? I am glad to see thee with all my Heart and Soul. 1730 H. Fielding Rape upon Rape ii. v. 23 Venus her self could not compare to thee, my little Honey-suckle. 1792 Duke & No Duke ii, in Coll. Farces V. 232 Poor dear little honey-suckle, how she sobs! 1840 W. Mudford Stephen Dugard ix. 107 And what did you do, my honeysuckle? 1888 Austral. Jrnl. Sept. 7/1 Hope to see you as usual next Sunday, my dear little honeysuckle. 1914 Crescent of Gamma Phi Beta June 287 Cally, Cally darling, what is muver's little honeysuckle doing? 2004 N. Minhas Passion & Poppadoms xxxiv. 452 Will you please tell the truth for once, Tom, darling, honeysuckle. †7. Honey. Cf. honeysuck n. 3. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > nectar mildeweOE honeydew1533 nectar1555 honeysuckle1607 honeysuck1608 nectar flood1610 nectar fountain1611 honey-rore1632 honey1733 1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse vii. f. 41^v Like an industrious Bee..can gather such honnisuckle from the sweetest flowers. 8. Any of various colours resembling those of the flowers of the common honeysuckle (sense A. 3a); esp. a pale, yellowish-pink, or a bright reddish-pink. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > other yellows jessamy1728 kamala1820 honey-gold1850 strontian yellow1854 spiraein1868 butter colour1877 honeysuckle1881 mimosa1909 1881 Centerville Appanoose (Iowa) Times 7 Apr. 1/6 Shades of honeysuckle will be used on new bonnets. 1890 Daily 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. 1923 Daily Mail 16 Apr. 1 (advt.) Colours:..Putty, Navy, Honeysuckle, Clematis. 1977 Western Morning News 30 Aug. 4/1 (advt.) Triumph Dolomite Sprint Automatic, Honeysuckle. Every conceivable extra. 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 26 Jan. e1 You wouldn't catch me dead in yellow or bright blue, but I'd wear honeysuckle. B. adj. Resembling honeysuckle in colour, smell, or sweetness; sweetly-scented, desirable, or delightful. Cf. sense A. 6. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [adjective] > desirable yearninglyOE desiderablea1340 desirablea1382 desirefulc1384 dainteousc1386 fairc1410 desirous1430 expetible1569 lustful?1610 appetible1622 desiderate1640 honeysuckle1660 deligible1680 wantable1886 1660 T. Forde Love's Labyrinth ii. iii. 20 in Virtus Rediviva (1661) Ha, my Carmela, let me kiss thy honysuckle lips. 1851 R. St. Clair Jones Brothers of Valencia iii. ii. 35 Cam...That awful phrase—a husband—stops my breath! Fer. And stops thy honeysuckle mouth—[kisses her.]. 1907 M. P. Willcocks Wingless Victory xxxii. 362 The whole world of emotion which he thought gone for ever had come back at the sight, the touch, the honeysuckle breath of her. 1938 Boston Daily Globe 19 Oct. 11/4 ‘I beg your pardon,’ Leitha Leroy observed in her honeysuckle voice, ‘but I'm to have this studio for the ensuing 30 minutes.’ 1965 H. Van Dyke Ladies of Rachmaninoff Eyes iii. ii. 192 She blissful and content, lifting her face to get a honeysuckle kiss. 2008 S. L. Carter Palace Council iii. 31 Her honeysuckle skin bespoke generations of careful breeding. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. (a) In senses of branch A. I. (chiefly sense A. 3a). ΚΠ 1573 J. Partridge Treasurie Commodious Conceits lx. sig. D.vi^v Two spoonfull of Honysuckle water. 1655 Natura Exenterata 50 Take honysuckle leaves and sage, seeth them together in running water, and wash therewith. 1757 W. Thompson Poems Several Occasions 75 How sweet are Lover's Vows by Night, Lap'd in a Honey-suckle Grove! 1791 W. Roberts Fugitives iv. 75 You will find me in the honeysuckle arbour. 1818 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 690 A wood..which the old workman..has romanticised with..fifty seats and honeysuckle bowers. 1848 A. Somerville Autobiogr. Working Man iv. 56 They would halt to gather some of the honeysuckle flowers hanging overhead. 1873 Harper's New Monthly Mag. June 97/2 It was a sweet overpowering rush of honeysuckle scent coming from the deserted garden. 1892 Daily News 29 Sept. 6/2 Brocade of honeysuckle colours. 1927 A. R. Williams Russ. Land xi. 292 A perfume-laden breeze blowing from the honeysuckle bastion. 1944 San Antonio (Texas) Express 27 Mar. 7/3 The bride was given in marriage by her father. She wore a honeysuckle color, satin wedding dress. 1988 Mid-Atlantic Country Mar. 104/1 Four deer broke out of their bedding place in a still-green honeysuckle blind. 2007 National Trust Mag. Autumn 79/2 (caption) Hazel dormouse hibernating in a nest of shredded honeysuckle bark and leaves. (b) In sense A. 5, as honeysuckle ornament, honeysuckle pattern, etc. ΚΠ 1801 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 1007/1 To decorate which, are..entablatures in the Roman and Grecian ‘ways’; a modern honeysuckle parapet; [etc.]. 1813 Times 13 Sept. 3/4 The corridors..are now embellished by panels in salmon colour, with dark mouldings and honeysuckle ornaments. 1884 Ann. Rep. Soc. Amer. Taxidermists 20 Humming bird screen with honeysuckle embroidery. 1895 A. C. Haddon Evol. in Art 156 Throughout the art of the civilised world of to-day we find..the misnamed honeysuckle pattern, or the anthemion, as it is preferable to call it. 1907 Cycl. India I. 88/1 (caption) The honeysuckle design on the ‘Lat’ at Allahabad. 1971 B. Cherry Pevsner's Surrey (rev. ed.) 194 Honeysuckle motifs were painted everywhere. 2000 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 16 Mar. e6 The pediment over the main portico..is further adorned by stylized honeysuckle ornaments called acroteria. b. Instrumental, similative, and parasynthetic. ΚΠ 1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iv. sig. H4^v I come, I come, more then most hunny-suckle sweete Ladies. 1830 Fraser's Mag. July 672/1 Often beside the honeysuckle festooned lattice I have sat, dreaming away the hour of summer twilight. 1862 St. James's Mag. 5 307 She was standing in the little honeysuckle-shaded porch, with Doggie at her feet. 1892 Ripon Millenary 154 King Alfred carried a tall wand, surmounted by a honeysuckle-shaped head. 1901 Sci.-gossip June 63/1 These lanceolate leaves were coloured honeysuckle-yellow. 1927 Passing Show Summer 60 The honeysuckle-starred summer-house where they had sat on that glamorous summer night. 1986 Econ. Bot. 40 93 Its exposed, honeysuckle-coloured..cortex is riddled by beetle larvae. 1990 News-Chron. (Shippensburg, Pa.) 12 Nov. a11/1 The first deer we spotted looked out of a honeysuckle-covered snag. 2008 S. McCoy Missing Persons iii. 40 Honeysuckle-scented air drifted into the room. C2. honeysuckle apple n. now rare a fungus, Exobasidium azaleae, occurring on the leaves of an azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides; (also) the plant itself. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > gall or abnormal growth > on particular plants oak-apple1440 bedeguar1578 sponge1608 oak-berry1626 oak nut1626 Aleppo gall1698 grape-gall1753 rose gall1753 oak galla1774 ear cockle1777 honeysuckle apple1818 sage-apple1832 robin's pincushion1835 oak spangle1836 robin's cushion1837 oak-wart1840 spangle1842 shick-shack1847 spangle-gall1864 tomato gall1869 Robin redbreast's cushion1878 knopper1879 trumpet-gall1879 spongiole1884 knot-gall1894 1818 S. W. Williams Floral Cal. in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. (1819) 1 369 June..2. Honeysuckle apple (Azalea nudiflora) in full flower. 1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People xix. 209 She gathered..stores of what were called ‘honeysuckle apples’ that grew upon them [sc. azaleas],—fleshy exudations..much valued by children. 1919 Amer. Botanist Aug. 109 The honeysuckle apple on Azalea is gall-like but not a true gall. honeysuckle clover n. now rare either of two clovers, red clover, Trifolium pratense, and white clover, T. repens; cf. sense A. 1. ΚΠ 1760 J. Webb Catal. Seeds & Hardy Plants 6/1 Small perennial white honey-suckle clover, 10 pounds. 1882 R. Jefferies Bevis I. xiii. 218 There was one blue spot of veronica still,..besides the white honeysuckle clover at which the grey bees were busy. 1923 Boys' Workers Round Table Midsummer 29/1 If you are..near an open field or pasture, have the boys notice the common Red, Purple or Honeysuckle Clover. 2003 J. Eastman Bk. Field & Roadside 110 Clovers... Other names: Dutch clover, honeysuckle clover. honeysuckle grass n. now rare white clover, Trifolium repens. ΚΠ ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 52 Take þe rede hony-suckle-gres, and do caste awey alle þe flour abowe. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue v. 202 But sow not the hony-suckle grasse in too moist a ground, for it liketh it not. 1732 W. Ellis Pract. Farmer 83 Ashes of Coal are esteem'd much beyond Wood-Ashes..and both produce Honeysuckle Grass in Meadows in abundance, if laid on about Christmas. 1810 W. Davies Gen. View Agric. N. Wales xii. 297 The burnt marl..causes grasses to vegetate that were uncommon to the soil before; especially white honey-suckle grass. 1900 Ann. Rep. Secretary State Hort. Soc. Mich. 1899 278 Honeysuckle grass..is the true shamrock of Ireland. honeysuckle tree n. (a) = sense A. 3a; (b) Australian = sense A. 4(b). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > Australasian banksia1787 waratah1793 honeysuckle1803 pinkwood1824 honeysuckle tree1825 rose1825 blue bush1828 dogwood1828 parrotbill1829 tulip-tree1830 whitebeard1832 swamp-oak1833 bauera1835 mungitec1837 bottlebrush1839 clianthus1841 glory-pea1848 boronia1852 koromiko1855 pituri1861 Sturt's pea1865 scrub vine1866 pea-bush1867 cotton-bush1876 Australian honeysuckle1881 peach myrtle1882 saloop bush1884 naupaka1888 dog rose1896 native tulip1898 snow bush1909 wedding-bush1923 Hebe1961 mountain pepper1965 1718 J. Gardiner tr. R. Rapin Of Gardens (ed. 2) Index Second Book, at Woodbine Honeysuckle-Tree, famous for the Fragrancy of its Flowers. 1737 J. Brickell Nat. Hist. N.-Carolina 57 Four sorts of Honey-suckle Tree, or Woodbind. 1825 in B. Field Geogr. Mem. New S. Wales 501 Honey-suckle tree... Banksia integrifolia. 1931 M. M. Banks Memories Pioneer Days Queensland 77 The honeysuckle tree, a native Banksia, has dense, cylindrical, honey-coloured spikes amongst its silver-lined foliage. 2002 Internat. Jrnl. Classical Trad. 8 669 The planting of honeysuckle trees..eventually might have visually obliterated the structure. honeysuckle trefoil n. now rare red clover, Trifolium pratense. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil white clovereOE cloverc1000 hare-foota1300 clerewort?a1400 clover-grassa1400 three-leaved grass14.. trefoilc1400 sucklingc1440 four-leaved grassc1450 trefle1510 Trifolium?1541 trinity grass1545 Dutch1548 lote1548 hare's-foot1562 lotus1562 triple grass1562 blain-grass1570 meadow trefoil1578 purple grass1597 purplewort1597 satin flower1597 cithyse1620 true-love grass?a1629 garden balsam1633 hop-clover1679 Burgundian hay1712 strawberry trefoil1731 honeysuckle trefoil1735 red clover1764 buffalo-clover1767 marl-grass1776 purple trefoil1785 white trefoil1785 yellow trefoil1785 sulla1787 cow-grass1789 strawberry-bearing trefoil1796 zigzag trefoil1796 rabbit's foot1817 lotus grass1820 strawberry-headed trefoil1822 mountain liquorice1836 hop-trefoil1855 clustered clover1858 alsike1881 mountain clover1882 knop1897 Swedish clover1908 sub clover1920 four-leaf clover1927 suckle- 1735 P. Miller Gardener's Dict. II. at Trifolium Common Meadow Trefoil, with a purple Flower, commonly call'd, Honeysuckle Trefoil. 1841 Visitor, or, Monthly Instructor Sept. 331/1 The common red clover, or honeysuckle trefoil..is one of the best known plants in farm fields. 1955 Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Cheshire 106 67 By the early nineteenth century red clover or honeysuckle trefoil was much used in laying land down. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1300
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