Meaning of honey-comb | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of honeycomb.

alt-of, countable, dated, uncountable

Examples

“So vvee read that God manifeſted by the Lots vvhich Saul cauſed to be dravvn [1 Sam[uel] 14.43.] the fault that Jonathan had committed, in eating a honey-comb, contrary to the oath taken by the people.”

“[T]o the altar each man brought some goodly offering, […] a waxen honey-comb / Dripping with oozy gold which scarce the bee / Had ceased from building, […]”

“Popular items in the show: […] Alain Glass's bee box, containing an occupied honey-comb (the bees are dead); […]”

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