hiven.
/hʌɪv/, U.S. /haɪv/ 1. An artificial receptacle for the habitation of a swarm of bees; a beehive.Originally made, in a conical or dome-like form, of straw or the like, but now often a square box, constructed with movable compartments or other arrangements for the removal of the honey.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > beehive
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beehivec1325
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skep1494
stall1505
butt1532
pyche1570
bee-stall1572
hive-cot1582
alveary1623
bee-skepa1634
bee-house1675
staller1712
stand1740
bee-gum1817
bink1824
bee-palace1845
c725 Corpus Gloss. 133 Alvearia, hyfi.
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 123/16 Canistrum, uel aluearium, hyf.
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 98 Wiþ ðæt beon æt ne fleon, genim þas ylcan wyrte..and gehoh hy to ðære hyfe.
a1132 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1127 He wunede eall riht swa drane doð on hiue.
c1325 Gloss. W. de Biblesw. in T. Wright Voc. 172 Rusche, hyve [Cambr. MS. huive].
a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 1408 So faste hii gonne aboute him scheue Ase don ben aboute þe heue.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 142 Þe bere delyteth myche in hony, and þer-fore he goth to an heve, to a swarm of been, & lycketh awey here hony.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxviii. 377 Hony takyn of a hyfe.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 179 Some make their Hiues of Lanterne horne, or Glasse,..that they may viewe the maner of their woorking.
1605 W. Camden Remaines ii. 7 Out of the heues came swarmes of Bees.
1736 Compl. Family-piece iii. 447 Any sort of Hive, whether of Straw, Board, or Glass.
1881 T. W. Cowan Brit. Bee-keeper's Guide Bk. (1889) ix. 46 No hive can be considered complete unless it has some arrangement for securing pure honey in the comb.
2. figurative. A storehouse of sweet things.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > of sweet things
hive1633
1633 G. Herbert Home in Temple iv Must he leave that nest, That hive of sweetnesse.
1671 A. Seller Devout Communicant 175 Whose bosom is the hive and center of all goodness.
1798 S. Rogers Epist. to Friend 14 London hails thee to its splendid mart, Its hives of sweets, and cabinets of art.
3. transferred.
a. A place swarming with busy occupants.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > [noun]
hive1634
workplace1708
coalface1964
1634 Noble Souldier v. sig. H4 Religious houses are those hyves, where Bees Make honey for mens soules.
1647 A. Cowley Wish in Mistress i The Crowd, and Buz, and Murmurings Of this great Hive, the City.
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 458 Our public hives of puerile resort. View more context for this quotation
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 200 A busy and populous hive, in which new wealth was every day created.
1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 2 A private shipyard is a hive of industry.
b. A place whence swarms of people issue; the nursery of a teeming race.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > place of origin of a people
hive1788
officina gentium1816
officina gentis1832
Urheimat1934
1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lviii. 457 They no longer send forth those swarms of people..which made them be called the northern hive.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 2 Both the Danes and Saxons were undoubtedly swarms from the northern hive.
1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. ii. 54 The hive whence the Pelasgian people issued.
c. The abode of any gregarious domestic animal.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal enclosure or house general > [noun] > animal house
houseOE
stablec1250
standing?1440
helm1501
barth1570
stablet1585
hive1653
barn1770
animal shelter1891
1653 Baker's Chron. Kings of Eng. (new ed.) 42 Hens, Peacocks, Geese and Ducks bred in, and accustomed to houses forsook their wonted hives, and turned wilde.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. 1 i. §3 The old hen of each hive or nide..is always anxious to retain her old nest.
d. spec. A breeding-place for oysters.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > fish-keeping, farming, or breeding > [noun] > breeding oysters > oyster-bed
oyster-leyne1581
oyster bed1591
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greening-pit1667
layer1735
laying1837
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plantation1881
hive1882
claire1901
1882 Daily Tel. 18 Aug. 5/1 The ostriculturist has designed what is termed a ‘hive’ made of limed tiles, to which the spat can readily affix itself.
4.
a. A hiveful of bees, a hived swarm.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > swarm of bees > hived swarm
bikea1400
hivec1430
stall1505
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 154 Foo unto hevys and enemy is the drane.
1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 125 The Commons like an angrie hiue of bees, Run vp and downe.
1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 219 [They] seemed to me to be just like a hive of bees working and labouring under huge weights of cares.
b. transferred. A swarming or teeming multitude.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > of people or animals > regarded as a whole or a body of people gathered > large or numerous
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puissance?a1475
army?1518
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conflux1702
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populace1823
hive1834
skreeda1838
skit1913
rort1941
1834 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 71/2 Those Gothic, Vandal, and Frankish hives, who were as yet hidden behind a cloud of years.
1847 J. Yeowell Chron. Anc. Brit. Church i. 2 It was here that the great hive of mankind was gathered together.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Boadicea 19 There the hive of Roman liars worship a gluttonous emperor-idiot.
5. Something of the shape or structure of a beehive:
a. A head-covering of platted straw.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > straw
hive1609
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. Kv Vpon her head a plattid hiue of straw.
1758 C. Lennox Henrietta I. i. x. 73 The shepherdess..with a straw hive on her head, and a tatter'd garment on.
b. A capsule or case containing many cells.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [noun] > capsule
heada1398
boll?a1500
bladder1578
bollen1578
bullion1589
bob1615
hive1665
seed box1677
capsule1693
amphora1821
pyxis1821
pyxidium1832
pore capsule1878
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 155 Microscopical seeds..For first, though they grow in a Case or Hive oftentimes bigger then one of these..being not above 1/ 32 part of an Inch in Diameter, whereas the Diameter of the Hive of them oftentimes exceeds two Inches.
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 188 Whether the seed of certain Bees, sinking to the bottom, might there naturally form itself that vegetable hive, and take root.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > basket
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leapc1000
weel1256
willow1385
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cruive14..
creel1457
coop1469
butt1533
hive1533
wilger1542
fish-pota1555
pota1555
loup1581
leap weel1601
willy1602
putt1610
leap-head1611
weir1611
putcher1781
fish-coop1803
fishing box1861
crib1873
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 7 No..person..shal..take..in..any..net..lepe, hiue, crele..or any other engine..the yonge frie..of any kinde of salmon.
1558 Act 1 Eliz. c. 17 §3 No..person..shall..take Fishe withe any maner of Nett, Tramell, Keppe, Wore, Hyvy, Crele, or by any other Engyne.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.† hive-cot n. Obsolete a beehive.† hive-dross n. Obsolete bee-glue, propolis.
hive-bee n. the common honey-bee.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Apidae (honey-bee)
beec1000
honeybeec1400
honey-fly?1483
honey people1605
hive-bee1816
1816 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1843) II. 103 The instincts that actuate the common hive-bee.
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species xiv. 474 The admirable architectural powers of the hive-bee.
hive-bound adj. confined to a hive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [adjective] > in a hive
hive-bound1921
1921 R. Graves Pier-glass 30 A hive-bound bee.
1945 W. de la Mare Burning-glass & Other Poems 67 As passive as the hive~bound bees.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > beehive
hivec725
beehivec1325
ruche1494
skep1494
stall1505
butt1532
pyche1570
bee-stall1572
hive-cot1582
alveary1623
bee-skepa1634
bee-house1675
staller1712
stand1740
bee-gum1817
bink1824
bee-palace1845
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 Lyke bees..Feaze away thee droane bees with sting, from maunger, or hiuecot.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > propolis or bee-glue
bee-glue1598
propolis1601
suburb dross1657
hive-dross1658
glue1694
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 916 Propolis the Arabians call Kur..the English, Hive-dross.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Hive-dross or Bee-glue, a kind of Wax which Bees make at the Mouth of their Hive, to keep out the Cold.
hive-evil n. a sickness to which bees are liable.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of insects > [noun] > disorders of bees
hive-evil1608
dysentery1816
foulbrood1853
Nosema1900
microsporidiosis1911
sacbrood1913
Varroa1974
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 81 If they be to many, they bring a sicknesse called the Hiue-euill.
hive-honey n. honey from a hive.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > other types of honey
clarified honeya1450
flower-honey1577
corn-honey1609
stone-honey1609
hive-honey1653
grass-honey1658
lily-honey1658
stock-honey1742
heather-honey1826
clover honey-
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vi. 140 Take the stinking oil..and Hive-honey, and annoint your bait therewith. View more context for this quotation
hive-moth n. an alternative name for the wax-moth or honeycomb moth.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Tineidae > member of genus Galleria (honey-moth)
honeycomb moth1758
honey moth1798
hive-moth1931
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Pyralidae > member of genus Galleria
wax-moth1766
bee-moth1829
hive-moth1931
1931 Oxf. Univ. Gaz. 17 June 703/1 Hive~moth (Galleria) at Nairobi.
hive-nest n. a structure consisting of an aggregation of many nests constructed and occupied by a colony of birds, such as those of the republican grosbeak and republican swallow.
hive-vine n. ‘the partridge-berry or squaw-vine, Mitchella repens’ ( Cent. Dict.).
Derivatives
ˈhiveless adj. destitute of a hive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [adjective] > hiveless
hiveless1575
1575 G. Gascoigne Fruit Reconcil. in Hearbes in Wks. II. 130 Like hiueless Bees they wander here and there.
ˈhiveward adv. towards the hive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [adverb] > towards hive
hiveward1847
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 74 I..less from Indian craft Then beelike instinct hiveward, found at length The gates of the garden.
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hive mind n. (a) Science Fiction a unified consciousness or intelligence formed by a number of alien individuals, esp. where the resulting consciousness exerts control over its constituent members; (b) any form of thinking or acting among a group of individuals, regarded variously as being stifling of individuality or as leading to a productive collective intelligence.
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1950 J. H. Schmitz in Galaxy Sci. Fiction Dec. 22/2 It's pretty certain, too, that the Halpa have the hive-mind class of intelligence, so what goes for the nerve systems of most of the ones they send through to us might be nothing much more than secondary reflex-transmitters.
1973 Daily Tel. 24 Mar. 14/4 The social and aesthetic attitudes have been passed through the homogeniser of the bureaucratic hive-mind.
1986 O. S. Card Speaker for Dead (1987) ii. 42 The buggers had casually killed human beings, but only because they had a hive mind.
2003 InfoWorld 6 Jan. 32/2 I blogged that solution anyway because it was an interesting partial result that would provoke the blog hive mind to suggest how to take the next step.
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hivev.
/hʌɪv/, U.S. /haɪv/ 1. transitive. To gather (bees) into a hive; to locate (a swarm) in a hive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [verb (transitive)] > gather or drive into hive
drive1609
hive1611
inhive1611
skep1825
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Rucher, to hiue, make hiues.
1615 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden (1626) 2 Your Gardner must..watch his Bees, and hive them.
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 265 Two swarms of Bees from different hives united, and were hived together.
1844 Gosse in Zoologist 2 607 A ‘gum’ or square box to hive the swarm for domestication.
2. transferred and figurative. To shelter as in a hive; to afford shelter to, as a hive does; to house snugly.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > seek (refuge) [verb (transitive)] > shelter > shelter as in a house
shroudc1450
hivec1595
house1610
roof1820
society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > afford accommodation to (of place)
lodgec1449
receive1552
booth1594
house1759
hive1812
roost1838
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lvii. 4 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 59 Lord..Hide me, hiue me, as thyne owne, Till those blasts be overblown.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. iii. sig. G3 So hiue him I' the Swan-skin Couerlid, and cambrick Sheetes, Till he worke Honey, and Waxe. View more context for this quotation
1812 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 67 529 The successive swarms of sharpers, which that city has hived, are notorious.
3. To hoard or store up, as honey, in the hive.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > hoard
hoardc1000
cofferc1394
moocha1400
sparec1400
muckera1425
hive1574
pose1866
1574 A. Golding in J. Baret Aluearie To Rdr. Of fower Tungs the flowers hyued bee In one sweete iewce to serue the turne of thee.
1653 J. Cleveland Poems (new ed.) 73 At my Fuscara's sleeve arriv'd, Where all delicious sweets are hiv'd.
1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III cvii. 58 The other, deep and slow, exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.
1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus iv. i. 122 Happier than the bee, Which hives not but from wholesome flowers.
1868 M. E. Grant Duff Polit. Surv. 7 It pleased M. Marc Monnier..to hive up an enormous mass of information.
4.
a. intransitive. To enter the hive, take to the hive, as bees.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [verb (intransitive)] > enter hive
hive1650
1650 H. Vaughan Silex Scintillans 105 Where Bees at night get home and hive.
1871 J. Miller Songs Italy (1878) 81 Then I should hive within your hair, And I should bide in glory there.
b. To live together as bees in a hive; also transferred to lodge together.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > together
usec1384
hive1600
cohabit1601
cohabitate1624
co-inhabit1624
roof1636
to move in1850
to live in each other's pockets1934
shack1935
to live together1961
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. v. 47 Drones hiue not with me, therefore I part with him. View more context for this quotation
1725 A. Pope Corr. 13 Sept. (1956) II. 319 We are..forc'd to..get into warmer Houses, and hive together in Cities.
5. intransitive. hive off: To swarm off like bees. Now esp., to break away from, to separate from, a group. Also transitive, to remove from a group, a large unit, etc., to make separate.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away in a crowd
hive offa1856
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > separate from main body
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to tell outc1325
shillc1440
sequestrate1513
sorta1535
shoal1571
segregate1579
dismember1580
single1582
scatter1588
disgregate1593
recond1608
sepone1619
sequester1625
canton1653
to cantonize outa1670
portion1777
to set off1795
to comb out1854
distinguish1866
split1924
hive off1931
section1960
separate1962
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate, come, or go apart [verb (intransitive)] > separate from main body
single1616
separate1844
disaggregate1852
segregate1863
hive off1937
a1856 in Olmsted Slave States (1861) ii. 38 ‘This way, gentlemen—this way!’..and the company immediately hived off to the second establishment.
1864 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 621 These emigrants are part of the swarm which annually hives off from the west.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 10 July 9/1 The Board is now hiving off to a mine with at least a promising name, the ‘Baron Rothschild’, in the Tati district.
1931 Economist 5 Dec. 1060/2 And even Syrai Proper has been made to hive off the autonomous Governments of the Jebel Druse and Alexandretta.
1937 Nature 16 Oct. 659/1 Experimental psychology..has hived off from physiology.
1951 Engineering 28 Sept. 403/2 The..firm..was ‘hived off’ from the parent company.
1957 Economist 30 Nov. 783/2 It will be remembered that, while part of the Moroccan Liberation Army..agreed to incorporation in the Royal Moroccan army, another part preferred to hive off and disappear into remote areas.
1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation xix. 257 Many animators with a flair for individual work have hived off from these studios.
1959 Duke of Bedford Silver-plated Spoon x. 201 The trustees were slowly hiving off part of the family estates to meet the awful burden of taxation.
1961 T. Landau Encycl. Librarianship (ed. 2) 146/1 Large public library systems are increasingly ‘hiving off’ special sections dealing with foreign literature.
1963 Times 20 Apr. 7/6 The territorial wings of the U.F.P. in Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland would now ‘hive off’ with ‘full authority to act for themselves’ under new names.
1969 New Scientist 1 May 262/2 The large machines are beginning to sprout small sideshoots on to which specialized tasks can be hived off.
1971 Times 21 Dec. 14/3 Strong opposition to the British Steel Corporation's plans to hive off part of the River Don works at Sheffield..is likely to be encountered.
Derivatives
hiving n. (also attributive)
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > entering hive
hiving1577
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > swarm of bees > entering or seeking hive
hiving1577
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > hoarding
muckeringc1430
hoarding1595
hiving1844
squirrelling1960
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 185v For commonly in the tenth yeere after their first hiuing, the whole stocke dyeth.
1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 265 The Church of no time may affoord hiuing for drones.
1844 M. F. Tupper Crock of Gold xxiii With all her hiding and hiving propensities.
1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights v. 25 All my hiving-up of what I am to gather.
hiver n. one who hives (bees).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > bee-keeper
bee-herd1483
honeyman1510
bee-ward?1518
bee-master1658
hiver1707
apiologist18..
apiarist1816
bee-keeper1817
bee-woman1833
apiarian1858
bee-mistress1859
bee-man1861
apiculturist1883
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 207 Let the Hiver drink a cup of good Beer, and wash his Hands and Face therewith.
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