Honied vs Honed - What's the difference?
honied | honed |
Covered with or containing honey
* {{quote-book, year=1836, author=William A. Alcott, title=The Young Mother, chapter=, edition=
, passage=It must be buttered, or honied , or toasted, or soaked in milk, or dipped in gravy. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=John L. Stoddard, title=Poems, chapter=, edition=
, passage=One of the pair Is a woman fair, With parted, smiling lips; For her each hour A honied flower, And she the bee that sips. }}
As sweet as honey
* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=Shapes of Clay, chapter=, edition=
, passage=From the same lips the honied phrases fall That still are bitter from cascades of gall. }}
Made sharp.
Made more accurate or precise.
(hone)
As adjectives the difference between honied and honed
is that honied is covered with or containing honey while honed is made sharp.As a verb honed is
(hone).honied
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