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Hive   /haɪv/   Listen
Hive

noun
1.
A teeming multitude.
2.
A man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees.  Synonym: beehive.
3.
A structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree.  Synonym: beehive.
verb
(past & past part. hived; pres. part. hiving)
1.
Store, like bees.  "He hived lots of information"
2.
Move together in a hive or as if in a hive.
3.
Gather into a hive.



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"Hive" Quotes from Famous Books



... nothing so much as a hive of angry bees. The girls buzzed with indignation, and loud were the ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains - or Bessie King's Strange Adventure • Jane L. Stewart
... And yet I am not happy, for after all it was the House of Senzangacona and not the people of the Zulus, that harmed me and mine, and Cetewayo still lives. While the queen bee remains there may be a hive again. While an ember still glows in the dead ashes, the forest may yet be fired. Perhaps when Cetewayo is dead, then I shall be happy. Only his death and mine are set by Fate as close together as two sister grains of corn ...
— Finished • H. Rider Haggard
... rejoice him to conquer a hive of bees, Overcome ants in battle,—we are scarcely more ...
— The Silk-Hat Soldier - And Other Poems in War Time • Richard le Gallienne
... combs of the hive-bee{292}; here again we must look to some faculty or means by which they make their hexagonal cells, without indeed we view these instincts as mere machines. At present such a faculty is quite ...
— The Foundations of the Origin of Species - Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 • Charles Darwin
... its hall swarming like a hive of bees, I drove to the dept in a hack with several fellow-passengers, Mr. Amy, who was executing a commission for me in the town, having promised to meet me there, but, he being detained, I arrived alone, and was deposited ...
— The Englishwoman in America • Isabella Lucy Bird


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