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Hone   /hoʊn/   Listen
noun
Hone  n.  A kind of swelling in the cheek.



Hone  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.
Hone slateSee Polishing slate.
Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.



verb
Hone  v. t.  (past & past part. honed; pres. part. honing)  
1.
To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.
2.
To render more precise or more effective; as, to hone one's skills.



Hone  v. i.  To grumble; pine; lament; long. (Dial.Eng. & Southern U. S.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hone" Quotes from Famous Books



... ring of speculators at figures which appal the man of moderate means. Of the various brands of 'cemetery,' that of Japan is most abundant, owing to the recent pestilence, but it is, fishy and rank. As for grain, or vegetable filling of any kind, there is hone in Persia, except the small lot I have on hand, which will be disposed of in limited quantities for ready money. But don't you foreigners bother about us-we shall get along all right-until I have disposed of my cereals. Persia does not need any ...
— The Fiend's Delight • Dod Grile

... the various species of divination formerly in use, is given by Gaule in his Magastromancer, and quoted in Hone's Year-Book, p. 1517. ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds • Charles Mackay

... there's a dog beyant the bark!" he cried a minute after, as the pup crept over to him and began to be friendly,—"I wonder is a mon sinsible to go to trustin' the loight o' any moon that shines full on a pitch-black noight whin 'tis rainin'? Och hone! but me stomach's that empty, gin I don't put on me shoes me lungs'll lake trou the soles o' me fate, and gin I do, me shoes they're that sopped, I'll cough them up—o-whurra-r-a! whurra-a! but will I iver see Old Oireland agin,—I ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright

... tells us there is a superstition that a child who does not cry when sprinkled in baptism will not live; and the same is recorded in Hone's Year-Book. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 • Various

... owns me do while I was away? and maybe it's break her heart the craythur would, thinking I was lost intirely; and who'd be at home to take care o' the childher' and airn thim the bit and the sup, whin I'd be away? and who knows but it's all dead they'd be afore I got back? Och hone! sure the heart id fairly break in my body, if hurt or harm kem to them, through me. So, say no more, Captain dear, only give me a thrifle o' directions how I'm to make an offer at gettin' home, and it's myself that will pray ...
— Stories of Comedy • Various


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