hive

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European countries the hive is always made from the trunk of a tree, a suitable cavity being formed by boring.

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  1. noun A structure for housing bees, especially honeybees.
  2. noun A colony of bees living in such a structure.
  3. noun A place swarming with activity.
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  • Bel had lifted the roof off a hive, and I stared over her black shoulder at the teeming mass of insects I think I understand," I finally said, "why a hive is unlike a Rule House. —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 03 - September 1999
  • Bees buzzing in a hive are as scary as the money shot in other gore films.
  • Honey bees attack people in two instances, when they feel their hive is attacked or when they themselves are threatened. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Indebtedness of the author to S. Wagner, Esq., 384 ADVERTISEMENT L. L. LANGSTROTH'S MOVABLE COMB HIVE Patented October 5, 1862 Each comb in this hive is attached to a separate, movable frame, and in less than five minutes they may all be taken out, without cutting or injuring them, or at all enraging the bees. —  Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual
  • The cutting of the combs from their attachments to the sides of the hive, in order to remove them, was attended with much loss of time to myself and to the bees, and in order to facilitate this operation, the construction of my hive was necessarily complicated_. —  Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English hȳf.

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  1. from Middle English hive, hyve, earlier hyfe, from Anglo-Saxon hy¯fe, earliest form hy¯fi, a hive; perhaps radically = Latin cūpa, a tub, cask, tun, vat, etc., later ult. English cup and coop, q. v.
  2. from hive, n.
 

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