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Bee  n.  
1.
(Zool.) An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee. Note: There are many genera and species. The common honeybee (Apis mellifica) lives in swarms, each of which has its own queen, its males or drones, and its very numerous workers, which are barren females. Besides the Apis mellifica there are other species and varieties of honeybees, as the Apis ligustica of Spain and Italy; the Apis Indica of India; the Apis fasciata of Egypt. The bumblebee is a species of Bombus. The tropical honeybees belong mostly to Melipoma and Trigona.
2.
A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. (U. S.) "The cellar... was dug by a bee in a single day."
3.
pl. (Naut.) Pieces of hard wood bolted to the sides of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore-topmast stays through; called also bee blocks.
Bee beetle (Zool.), a beetle (Trichodes apiarius) parasitic in beehives.
Bee bird (Zool.), a bird that eats the honeybee, as the European flycatcher, and the American kingbird.
Bee flower (Bot.), an orchidaceous plant of the genus Ophrys (Ophrys apifera), whose flowers have some resemblance to bees, flies, and other insects.
Bee fly (Zool.), a two winged fly of the family Bombyliidae. Some species, in the larval state, are parasitic upon bees.
Bee garden, a garden or inclosure to set beehives in; an apiary.
Bee glue, a soft, unctuous matter, with which bees cement the combs to the hives, and close up the cells; called also propolis.
Bee hawk (Zool.), the honey buzzard.
Bee killer (Zool.), a large two-winged fly of the family Asilidae (esp. Trupanea apivora) which feeds upon the honeybee. See Robber fly.
Bee louse (Zool.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insect (Braula caeca) parasitic on hive bees.
Bee martin (Zool.), the kingbird (Tyrannus Carolinensis) which occasionally feeds on bees.
Bee moth (Zool.), a moth (Galleria cereana) whose larvae feed on honeycomb, occasioning great damage in beehives.
Bee wolf (Zool.), the larva of the bee beetle.
To have a bee in the head or To have a bee in the bonnet.
(a)
To be choleric. (Obs.)
(b)
To be restless or uneasy.
(c)
To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head."


verb
Bee  v.  P. p. of Be; used for been. (Obs.)





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"Bee" Quotes from Famous Books



... the cutler could make it. And I know how to use it, Frank; but a man who carries a sword—if he is a man—is like a bee with its sting; he will not use it save at the last extremity. You must remember ...
— In Honour's Cause - A Tale of the Days of George the First • George Manville Fenn
... he will give as good as he gets. "Let-a-bee for let-a-bee," generally speaking, is expressive of mutual forbearance; but the "bairns o' ...
— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop
... deep-coloured and without a cloud, save here and there a minute, sultry, burnished vapour, almost as glossy as the heavens. Everything was still as it was bright; all seemed brooding and basking; the bee upon its wing was the only stirring sight, and its song the ...
— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli
... from the males; they are coy, and have to be sought out, and sometimes held by force. This tracking and grasping of the females by the males has given rise to many different characters in the latter, as, for instance, the larger eyes of the male bee, and especially of the males of the Ephemerids (May-flies), some species of which show, in addition to the usual compound eyes, large, so-called turban-eyes, so that the whole head is covered with seeing surfaces. In these species the females are very greatly in the minority ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... Governor came with his Lighthorse Troop And his mounted truckmen, all cock-a-hoop; Halberds glittered and colors flew, French horns whinnied and trumpets blew, The yellow fifes whistled between their teeth, And the bumble-bee bass-drums boomed beneath; So he rode with all his band, Till the President met him, cap in hand. The Governor "hefted" the crowns, and said,— "A will is a will, and the Parson's dead." The Governor hefted the crowns. ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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