honey-bee
A bee that gathers and stores honey, esp. the common hive-bee.
| c 1566 J. Alday tr. Boaystuau's Theat. World N iv b, Arthenor writeth that honie Bees and other flies chased out of a towne all the inhabitantes thereof. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World i. (1634) 75 Some affirme that hee (Jupiter) was fed by Honi-Bees. 1663 Gerbier Counsel F v b, Your Honey-bee-like disposition. 1835 W. Irving Tour Prairies 62 Some of the ancient settlers..pretend to give the very year when the honey bee first crossed the Mississippi. |