Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Honey in or with the comb; unstrained honey.
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Examples
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In a little while he reappeared carrying a milk-pan filled with comb-honey.
The Wrong Woman Charles D. Stewart
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We will live on pickles and comb-honey, and feast like the Romans of old!
The Half-Back Ralph Henry Barbour 1907
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The idyls of Theocritus are native to the island in this respect, and abound in bees -- "Flat-nosed bees" as he calls them in the Seventh Idyl -- and comparisons in which comb-honey is the standard of the most delectable of this world's goods.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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What a pleasing secret it is; a tree with a heart of comb-honey, a decayed oak or maple with a bit of Sicily or Mount
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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At the first blow the bees set up a loud buzzing, but we have no mercy, and the side of the cavity is soon cut away and the interior with its white-yellow mass of comb-honey is exposed, and not a bee strikes a blow in defense of its all.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879
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