honey-comb

honey-comb (countable and uncountable, plural honey-combs)

1. Dated form of honeycomb.
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Word of God, and of Prophets”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 3rd part (Of a Christian Common-wealth), page 230:

     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.

   • 1881, Oscar Wilde, “Charmides”, in Poems, London: David Bogue, […], →OCLC, page 105:

     [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, […]

   • 1965 February 21, Grace Glueck, “Blues and Greens on Reds”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 November 2025:

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