noun

• (uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.
  "Pleaſant words are [as] an honycombe, ſweete to the ſoule, and health to the bones."
• (countable, by extension) Something resembling honeycomb (sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.
  "The wood porch was a honeycomb of termite tunnels before we replaced it."
• (countable, by extension) Something resembling honeycomb (sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.
• (countable, by extension) Something resembling honeycomb (sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.

verb

• (transitive, often passive voice)
  "The ordinary tourist who visits the Boulak museum and the Necropolis of Sakkara, and then runs up to the First or the Second Cataract, is apt to think that the subject must be wellnigh exhausted; and is scarcely conscious of the fact that the banks of the Nile from Cairo to Thebes, between which he glides so rapidly in a Cook's steamer, or, more tranquilly, journeys in a dahabeeya, are strewn with the mounds of ancient cities, especially on the eastern shore, and that its cliffs are honeycombed with tombs."
• (transitive, often passive voice)
  "Termites will honeycomb a porch made of untreated pine."
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