| 单词 | white honey |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhite honey white honey n. (a) honey that flows from the comb spontaneously without pressure (now rare); (b) honey that is colourless or very pale in colour. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > virgin or liquid honey honey-teareOE life-honey?a1450 white honeya1450 virgin's honey1611 virgin honeya1665 a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 29 (MED) Do þer-to hwyte Hony or Sugre. 1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount iii. f. 65 Make one bedde or ranke of the pieces of melons, & another of the spices: than take fine white hony, and poure it vpon them in the saide vessell. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 72 In some places, as in Pontus, and in the Cittie of Amisus, Bees make white hony, without any combes at all, but this is sildome seene. 1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. IV. xviii. 340 These [honey-combs] they break soon after they are made, and lay them upon hurdles or mats of osier, or on linnen cloth,..and then an excellent white honey will fall from the combs. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 196/3 Boxes not quite full of white honey are worth more in market than if filled out with that from buckwheat. 2000 A. Dalby Dangerous Tastes 130 A thousand jars of white honey. < as lemmas |
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