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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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Etymology of 'Hive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hive" Quotes from Famous Books

... hacked into hand-saws; and the cloth goes to the sail-maker to be patched. Indeed, they are something like collegiate freshmen and sophomores, living in the college buildings, especially so far as the noise they make in their quarters is concerned. The steerage buzzes, hums, and swarms like a hive; or like an infant-school of a hot day, when the school-mistress falls asleep with a fly ...

— White Jacket - or, the World on a Man-of-War • Herman Melville

... far from being satisfied. An angry murmur had begun to fill the cavern as a hive is filled with the song of bees at swarming time. But even so, surmise what one might, it was not easy to persuade the eye that Yasmini's careless smile and easy poise were assumed. If she recognized indignation and feared it, she disguised ...

— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

... beheld in any man. I shall be able to spread the fire of enthusiasm in my country by borrowing it from you. No, do not be ashamed. You are far above all modesty and diffidence. You are the Queen Bee of our hive, and we the workers shall rally around you. You shall be ...

— The Home and the World • Rabindranath Tagore

... showed that we were approaching a populous place; and presently men swarmed forth from their hive-shaped tents, testifying their satisfaction at our arrival, the hostile Habr Awal having threatened to "eat them up." We rode cautiously, as is customary, amongst the yeaning she-camels, who are injured by ...

— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton

... that he would be not among strangers but among kinsmen and friends. A still stronger inducement was, that while all Europe was ablaze with wars and religious controversies, that one little kingdom was at peace. The band of scholars thus removed together to their new sphere, like a hive of bees, and at first all went well with them; but they had not been long in Portugal when Govra died, leaving them without any powerful patronage or protection, a band of strangers, no doubt appearing ...

— Royal Edinburgh - Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets • Margaret Oliphant

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