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Hives   /haɪvz/   Listen
Hives

noun
1.
An itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs.  Synonyms: nettle rash, urticaria, urtication.


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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"Hives" Quotes from Famous Books



... off, across the garden, were grandpa's beehives, where the bees were making honey. Sue and her brother could hear the bees buzzing as they flew from the hives to the flowers in the field. But the children did not want to go very close to the hives, for they knew ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus • Laura Lee Hope
... in viewing our flowers and vegetables, or in conversation relative to our manner of life, which greatly increased the pleasure of it. I had another little family at the end of the garden; these were several hives of bees, which I never failed to visit once a day, and was frequently accompanied by Madam de Warrens. I was greatly interested in their labor, and amused myself seeing them return to the hives, their little thighs so loaded ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau
... throng! Hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands, men and women, girls and boys, hurrying homeward. He had never noticed them before—this mighty host of three hundred thousand women and five hundred thousand men who rush into these swarming hives every morning and stream out again in the gathering dusk of spring and the ...
— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon
... Other stories, like 'The Sacred Milk of Koumongoe,' come from the Kaffirs in Africa, whose dear papas are not so poor as those in Australia, but have plenty of cattle and milk, and good mealies to eat, and live in houses like very big bee-hives, and wear clothes of a sort, though not very like our own. 'Pivi and Kabo' is a tale from the brown people in the island of New Caledonia, where a boy is never allowed to speak to or even look at his own sisters; nobody knows ...
— The Brown Fairy Book • Andrew Lang
... once some bees who were very much disturbed by a number of great moths who made a practice of coming into their hives and stealing their honey. Do what they could, the bees could not drive these strong ...
— Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy • Frank Richard Stockton


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