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noun

Hive n.

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.

The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.

A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd. "The hive of Roman liars."

Hive bee (Zool.), the honeybee.

verb

Hive v. t. (past & past part. hived; pres. part. hiving)

To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.

To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store. "Hiving wisdom with each studious year."

Hive v. i. To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hive" Quotes from Famous Books

... exact center of this district is the Settlement House—a brown building that is tall and curiously friendly. Between a great hive-like dwelling place and a noisy dance-hall it stands valiantly, like the soldier of God that it is! And through its wide-open doorway come and go the girls who will gladly squander a week's wage for a bit of satin or a velvet hat; the ...

— The Island of Faith • Margaret E. Sangster

... campaign, sallying out from thence to taste a sweet-pea or scarlet-runner and giving a passing kiss to a gaudy fuchsia, who wore a red coat and blue corporation sort of waistcoat, as they went homeward to their hive. ...

— Teddy - The Story of a Little Pickle • J. C. Hutcheson

... apology for it. "One has to wash London flowers." But as he touched it he looked up at her, and the quiet, usual song of his thoughts towards her grew suddenly loud and stupefyingly sweet. It was as if from the vacant hive-door the bees swarmed. In her eyes, as they met his, he thought he saw an expectancy, a welcome, and his hand, instead of stroking the rose-petals, closed on the rose and on the hand that held it, and kept them ...

— Michael • E. F. Benson

... now-a-days to be found in and around the station of Shillong, i.e. the Italian. This bee was imported into the hills by Messrs. Dobbie and Rita, and the species became propagated in the following manner. The bees had been just established in a hive, where they had constructed a brood comb, when the hive was robbed by some Khasis for the sake of the larvae it contained, which they wished to consume as food; but the queen bee escaped and established other colonies, one of which was afterwards captured by Mr. Rita, the others establishing ...

— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon

... the eastern outlying peaks of the Alban Mountains, and, like so many Italian mountains, has its road climbing to and fro in long loops to a gray little city at the top. This city of Monte Compatri is a full and busy hive, with solid blocks of houses, and the narrowest of streets that break now and then into stairs. For those old builders respected the features of a landscape as though they had been the features of a face, and no ...

— Stories by American Authors, Volume 2 • Various

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