Hone Meaning in Spanish

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1. (n.) A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.
2. (v. t.) To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.
3. (v. i.) To pine; to lament; to long.
4. (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
5. (v. i.) To grumble; pine; lament; long.

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Hone

1. (a.) Chaste; faithful; virtuous.
2. (a.) To adorn; to grace; to honor; to make becoming, appropriate, or honorable.
3. (a.) Characterized by integrity or fairness and straight/forwardness in conduct, thought, speech, etc.; upright; just; equitable; trustworthy; truthful; sincere; free from fraud, guile, or duplicity; not false; -- said of persons and acts, and of things to which a moral quality is imputed; as, an honest judge or merchant; an honest statement; an honest bargain; an honest business; an honest book; an honest confession.
4. (a.) Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
5. (a.) Open; frank; as, an honest countenance.

1. (n.) The act of honesting; grace; adornment.

1. (n.) Honesty; honorableness.

1. (adv.) Honorably; becomingly; decently.
2. (adv.) In an honest manner; as, a contract honestly made; to live honestly; to speak honestly.

1. (a.) The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile.
2. (a.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
3. (a.) Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.
4. (a.) Chastity; modesty.

1. (n.) An umbelliferous plant of the genus Sison (S. Amomum); -- so called because used to cure a swelling called a hone.

1. (n.) Sweet one; -- a term of endearment.
2. (n.) A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
3. (v. t.) To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
4. (n.) That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
5. (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.