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wasp's nest, wasp-nest
The nest of a wasp. Also fig.
c1386Chaucer Prioress' T. 107 Sathanas That hath in Iues herte his waspes nest. c1440Promp. Parv. 517/2 Waspysnest, vesparium. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 128 Which..bring foorth a swarme (as it were) of bees, or rather a waspes neast in us. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iv. iv. 814 Hee has a Sonne, who shall be..set on the head of a Waspes Nest. 1745Phil. Trans. XLIII. 363 Two Sorts of curious Wasps Nests made with Clay. 1819Shelley Cyclops 474 If like a wasp's nest I could scoop the eye out Of the detested Cyclops. 1853Lytton My Novel iii. xxiv, Your policy of half-measures,..which flaps an exasperated wasp⁓nest with a silk pocket-handkerchief, instead of blowing it up with a match and train, is rarely successful. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. x. ii. (1873) III. 223 Cannot we get away from this scurvy wasp's-nest of a Paris? 1870Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. iv. VI. 328 The female Rhipiphorus lays her eggs before leaving the wasps' nest. 1899D. Sharp Insects ii. 82 It would be impossible..to give a satisfactory account of all the forms of wasp-nests. Ibid. 86 A wasp's nest.
Hence wasp-nesting vbl. n. [-ing1], the action of searching for wasp's nests.
1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 1873, 263/1 Fancy going about wasp-nesting with some one at your heels to take care of you. |