hive

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A structure for housing bees, especially honeybees.
2. n. A colony of bees living in such a structure.
3. n. A place swarming with activity.
4. v. To collect into a hive.
5. v. To store (honey) in a hive.
6. v. To store up; accumulate.
7. v. To enter and occupy a beehive.
8. v. To live with many others in close association.
9. hive off To set apart from a group: hived off the department into another division.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An artificial shelter or cell for the habitation of a swarm of honey-bees; a place in which bees harbor and lay up honey. Hives were for ages, and in some places still are, made of thick ropes of straw, wound and fastened in a characteristic conical form still distinctively known as the beehive form; but they are now generally square chests of several compartments, or with many small boxes, for the storage and removal of the honey. The natural harbor of wild bees is usually in a hollow tree.
2. n. A bonnet or hat shaped like a beehive.
3. n. A swarm of bees, or the bees inhabiting a hive.
4. n. The abode of any animal.
5. n. Figuratively, a place swarming with busy occupants; a bustling company.
6. To gather into a hive; cause to enter a hive: as, to hive bees.
7. To stow, as in a place of deposit; lay up in store for future use or enjoyment.
8. To enter a hive; take to a hive, as bees; take shelter or lodgings together, in the manner of bees.
9. n. In oyster-culture, an artificial bed prepared for spat.

Wiktionary

1. n. A structure for housing a swarm of honeybees.
2. n. The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
3. n. A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
4. n. computing A section of the registry.
5. v. intransitive, entomology To enter or possess a hive.
6. v. intransitive To form a hive-like entity.
7. v. transitive To collect into a hive.
8. v. transitive To store in a hive or similarly.
9. v. intransitive To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
2. n. The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
3. n. A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
4. v. To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive.
5. v. To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.
6. v. To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree
2. n. a teeming multitude
3. v. move together in a hive or as if in a hive
4. v. gather into a hive
5. n. a man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees
6. v. store, like bees