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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HIVE, n.
1. A box, chest or kind of basket for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honey-bees. It is made of boards, straw or other materials.
2. A swarm of bees; or the bees inhabiting a hive.
3. A company or society together, or closely connected. [Unusual.]
HIVE, v.t. To collect into a hive; to cause, to enter a hive; as, to hive bees.
1. To contain; to receive, as a habitation, or place of deposit.
Where all delicious sweets are hived.
HIVE, v.i. To take shelter or lodging together; to reside in a collective body.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a teeming multitude
2: a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees [syn: beehive, hive]
3: a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree [syn: beehive, hive] v
1: store, like bees; "bees hive honey and pollen"; "He hived lots of information"
2: move together in a hive or as if in a hive; "The bee swarms are hiving"
3: gather into a hive; "The beekeeper hived the swarm"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hy?f; perhaps akin to Old Norse h?fr ship's hull, Latin c?pa tub, Sanskrit k?pa cave Date: before 12th century 1. a. a container for housing honeybees b. the usually aboveground nest of bees 2. a colony of bees 3. a place swarming with activity • hiveless adjective II. verb (hived; hiving) Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. of bees to enter and take possession of a hive 2. to reside in close association transitive verb 1. to collect into a hive 2. to store up in or as if in a hive

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a a beehive. b the bees in a hive. 2 a busy swarming place. 3 a swarming multitude. 4 a thing shaped like a hive in being domed. --v. 1 tr. a place (bees) in a hive. b house (people etc.) snugly. 2 intr. a enter a hive. b live together like bees. Phrases and idioms: hive off 1 separate from a larger group. 2 a form into or assign (work) to a subsidiary department or company. b denationalize or privatize (an industry etc.). hive up hoard. Etymology: OE hyf f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hive Hive, n. [OE. hive, huve, AS. h?fe.] 1. A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees. --Dryden. 2. The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees. --Shak. 3. A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd. The hive of Roman liars. --Tennyson. Hive bee (Zo["o]l.), the honeybee.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hive Hive, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hived; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiving.] 1. To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees. 2. 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. --Byron.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hives, hiving, hived) 1. A hive is a structure in which bees are kept, which is designed so that the beekeeper can collect the honey that they produce. N-COUNT 2. If you describe a place as a hive of activity, you approve of the fact that there is a lot of activity there or that people are busy working there. In the morning the house was a hive of activity... N-COUNT: N of n [approval] 3. Hives is a condition in which patches of your skin become red and very uncomfortable and itchy.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Habitation of bees, bee-hive, apiary. 2. Swarm of bees, swarm. II. v. a. 1. Put into a hive. 2. Store, collect, gather. See hoard.

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