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mièl (noun masculine)

(english translation: honey)

i.         sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.

ii.         soft sweet vegetable juice, collected by bees from the flowers of plants, and deposited in cells of the comb in hives. Honey, when pure, is of a moderate consistence, of a whitish colour, tinged with yellow, sweet to the taste, of an agreeable smell, soluble in water, and becoming vinous by fermentation. In medicine, it is useful as a detergent and aperient. It is supposed to consist of sugar, mucilage, and an acid.

iii.        word of tenderness; sweetness; sweet one.

one says figuratively and proverbially, ‘one takes more flies with honey than with vinegar’, to mean that softness makes a better success of business, that persuasion has more effect than the authority.