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hive 1, noun(dictionary)
hive 2, verb(dictionary)
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hive(1) (iou)



hive noun.
[Old English hf from Germanic base of Old Norse hufr ship's hull: cf. Latin cupa barrel.]
I.
An artificial structure to house a colony of bees. Also beehive. OE.
T. Hooper Bees have been kept..in earthenware pipes, straw skeps, wooden boxes and all types of hive.
b. fig. A storehouse of sweet things. M17.
G. Herbert Must he leave that nest, that hive of sweetnesse.
Something resembling this structure in (esp. domed) shape or design. M16.
A structure to house any gregarious livestock. rare. M17.
A place swarming with busy occupants. M17.
J. Higgins The place was a hive of activity, workmen everywhere.
b. A place from which multitudes of people emerge. L18.
J. Priestley They no longer send forth those swarms of people..which made them be called the northern hive.
II.
Bees in a hive collectively. LME.
Shakespeare 2 Henry VI The commons, like an angry hive of bees That want their leader, scatter up and down.
A swarm of people, a multitude. M19.