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LEFT HONEY STONE 47 HONVED General Cooper, and 3,000 Union men commanded by General Blunt, The former suffered a defeat, leaving 150 men dead on the field, and 77 prisoners, besides suffering a loss of 400 men wounded. National loss 77 men, of whom 17 were killed. HONEY STONE, or MELLITE, a min- eral of remarkable characters and com- position, found in connection with brown coal, in several places in Germany, It occurs in square octahedrons, looks like a honey-yellow resin, and may be cut with a knife. HONEYSUCKLE, in botany, the genus Lonicera. The common honeysuckle is L. periciymenum; the stem is 10 or 20 feet high, climbing; the corolla one to one and a half inches long, dirty-red outside, and yellow within. It is found in Europe and North Africa. A culti- vated variety is common in gardens. It is called also woodbine and by Milton twisted eglantine. HONG KONG, an island of China in the Bay of Canton, E. of Macao; area, 32 square miles. It was given to the Brit- ish by the treaty of Nan-Kin in 1842, depends on the presidency of Calcutta, and has Victoria as capital. A univer- sity was opened in 1912. Pop. (1917) 535,100. HONITON (hon'i-ton), a town of Devonshire, England, near the left bank of the Otter. The famous Honiton pil- low-lace, a manufacture introduced here by Flemish refugees in the middle of the 16th century, is still a specialty of the district. HONOLULU, a city of Hawaii (g. i'.), on the island of Oahu on Oahu Bay. It is the most important city in the Pacific islands and is an important entre- pot for sailing vessels between the United States and Asiatic countries. Its harbor is one of the finest in the world. The city is situated amid beau- tiful tropical surroundings and has an equable and healthful climate. Among the chief points of interest are the Pal- ace, the Government Buildings, Roman Catholic cathedral, post-office, and the Bishop Museum, containing the cele- brated feather cloaks of Kamehameha, There are numerous churches, public libraries, theaters, daily and weekly news- papers, telephone and telegraph, banks, electric lights and street railways, and many commercial establishments. Pop. (1910) 52,183; (1920) 83,327. HONOR, a word of many applications. At cards one of the four highest trump- cards — viz., the king, queen, knave, or ace. In English law a seigniory of several manors, held under one baron or lord-paramount. At the English uni- versities the first or highest class in an examination; as. He went out in "honors." A debt of honor, a debt, as money lost in gambling, which cannot be recovered by legal process. A point of honor, a scruple arising from delicacy of feeling, on which depends the course to be pursued in certain cases. Word of honor, a verbal promise or engage- ment by which one pledges his honor or good faith. Court of honor, a court or tribunal for hearing and determining questions relating to the laws of honor. Honors of war, a distinction or privilege granted to a beaten enemy, as, to march out of a town, etc. HONOmUS, FLAVIUS (hon-or'e-us) , a Roman emperor; son of Theodosius the Great; born in A. D. 384. The chief events of his reign are the adoption of rigorous measures against paganism in 399; the invasion by Alaric in 400-403; another irruption of barbarians under Rhadagaisus, 405-406. Alaric marched on Rome and plundered it in 409, while Honorius shut himself up in Ravenna. Some of the finest provinces of the empire, Spain, Gaul, and Pannonia, were lost in this reign. He died in A. D, 423. HONORIUS I., Pope; succeeded Boni- face V. as Bishop of Rome in 625. His name is connected with the history of the paschal controversy in Ireland and with that of the early Anglo-Saxon. Church. At the height of the Monothe- lite controversy Honorius, at the sugges- tion of Sergius, patriarch of Constanti- nople, abstained from condemning the new doctrines, and for his luke-warmness in so doing was stigmatized as a heretic at the Council of Constantinople (680). He died in 688. HONORIUS II., Pope; succeeded Ca- lixtus II. in 1124, and at the same time, Thibauld was chosen by another party, under the name of Celestin; but he re- signed the chair to his rival. He died in 1130. HONORIUS III., was made Pope after Innocent III., in 1216. He died in 1227. HONORIUS IV., a Roman; ascended the papal chair in 1285. He displayed great zeal for the Church, and promoted the crusades. He died in 1288. HONOS, or HONOR, a Roman divin- ity, whose worship was intimately con- nected with that of Virtus. HONVED (hon-ved'), the name given in Hungary under the earlier kings to the national champions. In the summer of