honeycombed

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The best of authors, he contended, had better perish by this warlike consummation than by the inglorious enmity of bookworms and moths--honeycombed, as most of the books had been which had gone out to India with our two uncles.

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  1. Perforated or excavated like a honeycomb; specifically, having little cells, as cast metal when not solid. This geyser presents a shallow basin, with rather illdefined margin, formed of thin plates of honeycombed geyserite. Science, IV. 22.
  2. Decorated with a honeycomb pattern—either the Mayflower pattern or one of hexagons.

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  • The body features a maple top over a "honeycombed" ash core, i.e. the body is porous, i.e. chambered, i.e. you got the picture from the term —  Gearwire -
  • There are trotters with tripe-honeycombed, fetid, strictly for the adventurous. —  The New Yorker
  • The best of authors, he contended, had better perish by this warlike consummation than by the inglorious enmity of bookworms and moths--honeycombed, as most of the books had been which had gone out to India with our two uncles. —  The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
  • "The fact is, that the commandant is aware that you are acquainted with the weak points of the fort, that the gun-carriages are rotten, and many of the guns are themselves honeycombed or dismounted We were conducted out of the way when the officer with the flag of truce entered the fort. —  James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat
  • And therewith I proceeded to grope and feel about in the various fissures and cavities with which the rocky walls of the small cavern were honeycombed, but without success. —  A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron
 

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