Thanks, Susan! I added "quagmire" last of all, originally thinking to say it might belong to Deshoda's list of 100 whimsical words. Then I decided it was more beautiful than whimsical.
I knew I'd think of more words after completion. The first one is "quixotic".
The word "honey" is used as a verb by Douglas Dunn in S3 of his elegy for Larkin, "December's Door". Wonderful choice of word in the context:
A leaf-marked book aches on my windowsill.
0Straw gold and central green were there
A year ago, but book-locked winterkill
0Disfigured them in printed air.
In a closed shadow, opened now, a door
0Into December's estuary
Beneath a wigged moon, it honeys the floor
0To starry oak, reflected Tay.
Geese draw their audible, Siberian bow
0Over the moon and Buddon Ness,
And now I can't repay the debt I owe,
0A withered leaf, a dry distress.
Duncan
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