(n.) A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
(n.) That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
(n.) Sweet one; -- a term of endearment.
(v. i.) To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
(v. t.) To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(2) The elution curves of the individual honeys were very similar.
(3) Pure honey bee cytochrome c was isolated from workers and used to produce antibodies in rabbits.
(4) Skin tests to seasonal outdoor aeroallergens were negative, as were inhalation challenges with two insecticides used inside the building during the honey pack.
(5) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(6) The Refugee Council expressed “grave concerns” as the Home Office minister James Brokenshire defended plans to remove automatic benefits from families who did not win asylum as a way of signalling that the UK was not “a land of milk and honey”.
(7) Domestic and imported honey samples (115) contained 2.00% maltose and 0.71% isomaltose.
(8) Honey bee mitochondrial trehalase was significantly activated by Lubrol WX treatment (30.0-fold), by high pH treatment (20.8-fold), and by a treatment consisting of 10 passes through a French press (37.9-fold) but not by the other treatments tried (salt, proteases, Waring blender, and sonication), despite the fact that these treatments also disrupted the mitochondria significantly.
(9) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
(10) Unilateral microinjections of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), acetylcholine (ACh) and related substances into central parts of the brain of the honey bee elicit a quantifiable circling behavior.
(11) At present, the sweetening carbohydrates have a share of about 49% of the total-carbohydrate-consumption, from which 24% is sugar in its conventional form; a further 3% comes from fruits and vegetables; 5% of the carbohydrates are lactose, 15.5% are monosaccharides, from which 12% are derived from vegetable foodstuffs and honey.
(12) Six years ago, officials dismissed as ridiculous allegations that he had shot a drunken Russian bear that had been plied with honey and vodka.
(13) The British foreign secretary flatly admits that it was Jolie's film, Land of Blood and Honey , that inspired his commitment to the cause.
(14) These monoclonal antibodies were more suitable than polyclonal rabbit anti-human IgG antibody in Phadebas RAST for honey bee venom-specific IgG antibody.
(15) A publisher has claimed that Apple has removed Salwa Al Neimi's erotic novel The Proof of the Honey from the iTunes store because its cover – which features part of a woman's naked back and bottom – is "inappropriate".
(16) while hydrated colocynithin was more toxic to housefly than honey bee, cotton leafworm was less affected with both toxicants.
(17) Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey (1959) was "about as true to Lancashire as anything ever written by Ivor Novello about Ruritania," though no one believed that Shulman had set foot in that county, or understood his reason for being such a loud and assiduous notetaker at opening nights.
(18) It is concluded that: 1) honey and bread produce similar degrees of hyperglycemia in type II diabetics.
(19) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
(20) In addition, the procedure detects the presence in honey of all starch-derived sugar sirups tested thus far, regardless of the plant source.
Molasses
Definition:
(n.) The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sugarbeet pulp and molasses from 57 processing plants in 16 States were sampled for pesticide residues.
(2) In a molasses medium, the cell yield of YOY920 was comparable to that of a baking strain FSC6001, and much higher than that of the non-sucrose-fermenting strains.
(3) Clostridium pasteurianum possesses a high level of glutamate synthase (EC 1.4.1.14) activity and cell yield when grown on 4 mM ammonium chloride and molasses as the sole nitrogen and carbon sources, respectively.
(4) A gas-liquid chromatographic (GLC) method is described for the determination of diethylstilbestrol (DES) in molasses-based liquid feed supplements, using dienestrol diacetate as the internal standard.
(5) Curators, crude oil and an outdated cultural mix Protesters disrupt Tate Britain's party celebrating 10 years of BP sponsorship, throwing molasses over the steps of the gallery.
(6) Due to the dramatic increase in international oil prices, the ethanol production by fermentation is presently becoming an attractive and feasible project for many countries Argentina has implemented an experimental national program of ethanol use as fuel and the standard procedure of Melle-Boinot is currently employed in sugar cane molasses fermentation.
(7) Raw whole cottonseed (CS), extruded whole cottonseed (ECS), and roasted whole cottonseed (RCS) were fed in diets containing 17% crude protein and composed of 42% whole cottonseed, 26% corn grain and 29% hay supplemented with dry molasses, vitamins and minerals.
(8) In diets with both roughages combined, molasses did not affect any variable measured; however, these diets gave highest solids-corrected milk yields.
(9) It was generally complete at 72 h. In trial 1, rats were fed silage mixtures of 60:30:5:5, 45:45:5:5 and 30:60:5:5, offal, corn, molasses and inoculant, respectively.
(10) Effects of cane molasses at 0, 4, and 8% of DM in complete mixed diets were evaluated when molasses was fed to lactating dairy cows with cottonseed hulls, alfalfa haylage, or both combined.
(11) With alfalfa haylage diets (35% of DM), 8% molasses depressed actual milk yield and solids-corrected milk, DM intake, milk fat percentage, milk protein percentage, and feed efficiency.
(12) The value of blood analysis in establishing a diagnosis and a dietary supplement of molasses in correcting the production problems is illustrated.
(13) Maximal yield was obtained when the organism grew in Czapek solution supplemented with yeast extract, although good conversion was also found in a peptone-corn molasses medium.
(14) The molasses-grown cells exhibited a balanced sterol composition throughout growth, maintaining the proportion of ergosterol to 24:28-dehydroergosterol equal to 1.4.
(15) The commercially obtained yeast used previously had been grown in a molasses medium.
(16) Intake of molasses was apparently stimulated by a protein supplementation but not by defaunation and this finding is discussed.
(17) Their addition to the growth medium produced the same effect as that of molasses and maize extract.
(18) Finally, the number of protozoa in the rumen liquor was reduced by 49 and 70% at 0 and 5 hours post feeding respectively with the addition of lasalocid to the diets, regardless of the use of molasses.
(19) The experimental design was a 2 x 2 x 4 factorial replicated over 2 yr with main effects for season (summer, winter), diet (H = ground alfalfa hay, H + G = 50% ground alfalfa, 47.5% dry-rolled wheat and 2.5% molasses) and water source (N = normal, S = saline) during two consecutive 56-d periods in each experiment (N-N, N-S, S-N, S-S).
(20) The original carbon source of the basal medium was replaced by one of the following materials: rice bran, wheat bran, corn bran, corn starch, cane molasses, and glucose syrup.