honeycomb work
noun
1A natural structure, decoration, ornamentation, etc., having a honeycomb pattern, or made to resemble honeycomb in some way.
2 Architecture ornamentation on a ceiling (especially of a dome or arch) consisting of clusters of small vaulted arches arranged intricately in overhanging tiers, typical of Moorish architecture.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in William Stukeley (1687–1765), antiquary and natural philosopher.
- (as) dead as a doornail
- (as) dead as a (or the) dodo
- (as) dead as mutton
- (as) deaf as a post
- ASDIC
- as different as (or like) chalk and cheese
- (as) drunk as a lord (or skunk)
- (as) dry as a bone
- (as) dry as a Pommy's towel
- (as) dry as dust
- (as) dull as dishwater (or ditchwater)
- -ase
- ASEAN
- (as) easy as falling off a log
- (as) easy as pie
- as easy as winking
- (as) easy (or simple) as ABC
- a second thought
- aseismic
- asepsis
- aseptic
- aseptically
- asequia
- asexual
- asexualise