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n.
A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.
v. i.
To collect, and depart from a hive by flight in a body; -- said of bees; as, bees swarm in warm, clear days in summer.
n.
A place swarming with busy occupants; a crowd.
v. i.
To take shelter or lodgings together; to reside in a collective body.
v. t.
To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.
imp. & p. p.
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v. t.
To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.
n.
Any species of bee which has on the hind legs a brush of hairs used for collecting pollen, as the hive bees and bumblebees.
n.
An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.
n.
A removable upper part of a hive. The word is sometimes contracted to super.
a.
Destitute of a hive.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; a slightly built or temporary structure.
n.
The croup.
v. t. v. t.
To drive or remove from a hive.
n.
One who collects bees into a hive.
n.
The bees of one hive; a swarm of bees.
n.
Especially, a great number of honeybees which emigrate from a hive at once, and seek new lodgings under the direction of a queen; a like body of bees settled permanently in a hive.
n.
Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.
n.
A thick mass or collection of hairs on the legs of bees, by aid of which they carry the collected pollen to the hive or nest; -- usually in the plural.
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