| 单词 | virgin honey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvirgin honey virgin honey n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > virgin or liquid honey honey-teareOE life-honey?a1450 white honeya1450 virgin's honey1611 virgin honeya1665 a1665 K. Digby Closet Opened (1669) 5 It is of three sorts, Virgin-honey, Life-honey, and Stock-honey. 1679 M. Rusden Further Discov. Bees 64 The ignorance of many Country people not knowing which is right Virgin-Hony, and which is not. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 283 The Honey which first flows of it self from the Combs is called Virgin Honey (as is also the Honey which comes from the first Years Swarm). 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) We have two Kinds of Honey, white and yellow.—The white, call'd also Virgin Honey, trickles out spontaneously from the Comb, by turning it up or breaking it. 1772 J. W. Fletcher Appeal Matter of Fact Concl. Addr. 42 Some poor hungry hearts will say, ‘One thing is needful for us. We cannot have too much virgin-honey’. 1866 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (new ed.) III. 695/1 Any experiments on this subject must be with virgin honey, or that drained from the new comb. < as lemmas |
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