hived

Verb

hive (third-person singular simple present hives, present participle hiving, simple past and past participle hived)

1. (transitive) To collect (bees) into a hive.
   • to hive a swarm of bees
2. (transitive) To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
   • Hiving wisdom with each studious year.1816, Lord Byron, “Canto III”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. Canto the Third, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number)
3. (intransitive) To form a hive-like entity.
4. (intransitive) To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.
   • The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, / Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me; / Therefore I part with him; and part with him / To one what I would have him help to waste / His borrowed purse. […]c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
5. Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.

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