An artificial receptacle for the habitation of a swarm of bees; a beehive.

A receptacle used as a home for bees; usually made of thick straw work in the shape of a dome; but there are modern contrivances made of many…

Scottish. A beehive. Cf. ruskie, n. 2. Obsolete.

A beehive. Also figurative.

A hive of bees; a ‘stock’ of bees in or for a hive; also, a beehive. (Cf. staller, n.3)

A man-made receptacle used as a home for a colony of bees; a beehive; a hiveful of bees. Now only in bee-butt.

A beehive.

a beehive.

a beehive.

A beehive. Also: the location where a beehive stands; an apiary. Now rare.

a straw beehive.

= stall, n.4

Chiefly Bee-keeping. A structure for housing a colony of bees; a bee hive.

a term in parts of U.S. for a beehive (originally a hollow gum tree or log housing a swarm of bees).

A hive; a wasps' nest. Also in wasp-bink. Cf. bike, n.1