alveary

Noun

alveary (plural alvearies)

1. A beehive, or anything resembling a beehive.
   • The value of an alveary or hive was 4d, and a swarm on a tree was recognised as free for the taking.1954, British Bee Journal - Volume 82, page 639
2. The hollow of the external ear.
   • The effects of the hydriatic treatment upon inflammations of the brain are elimination of the matter of disease, partly through perspiration and eruptions on the head, but more through abnormal secretions from the alvearies or hollows of the ears, and from the nostrils (catarrh); oftentimes these...1848, J. H. Rausse, Miscellanies to the Graefenberg Water-cure, page 137
   • In otoscopy alveary narrowed due to the omission of his caudineural wall.2009, Anton L, “Mastoiditis Island”, in United States RX Medication - Men's Health
3. A repository, especially of knowledge or information.
   • They married the proprietors of the great empty alvearies, filled these with seed, and obtained, in return, titles and crowns, which were the baubles of which they had ever been dreaming.1911, Hélène Favre de Coulevain, Pierre de Coulevain, The Unknown Isle, page 198