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单词 bee
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been.1

Brit. /biː/, U.S. /bi/
Forms: Old English–Middle English béo, Middle English–1800s bee (Middle English by, Middle English–1500s be, 1500s bey). plural bees: also Old English–Middle English beon, Middle English–1600s been, Middle English bene, bein, 1500s beene.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English béo = Old High German bîa (German dialect beie), Middle Low German bîe, Low German bigge, Middle Dutch bie, Dutch bij, all feminine; Old Norse bý (? neuter) < Germanic *bîôn- or biôn; beside which there is Old High German bini neuter, Middle High German bine, bin, feminine, modern German biene < Germanic *bini; all going back to root bi-, perhaps = Aryan bhi- ‘to fear,’ in the sense of ‘quivering,’ or its development ‘buzzing, humming.’
1.
a. A well-known insect, or rather genus of insects, of the Hymenopterous order, living in societies composed of one queen, or perfect female, a small number of males or ‘drones,’ and an indefinite number of undeveloped females or ‘neuters’ (which are the workers), all having four wings; they collect nectar and pollen, and produce wax and also honey, which they store up for food in the winter.
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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 (bee)
beea1000
honeybird1599
upholsterer1830
a1000 Ags. Ps. cxvii. 12 Þá hí me ymbsealdon samod..swá béon.
a1100 Ags. Gloss. in Wülcker Voc. 318 Apis, beo.
c1275 Pains of Hell in Old Eng. Misc. 148 Þickure hi hongeþ þer ouer-al Þan don been in wynterstal.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Deut. i. 44 As been [a1425 L.V. bees] ben wont to be pursued.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7113 In leon muth he fand, was slain, A bike o bees [Fairf. bes] þar-in be-bredd.
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) i. xix. 35 b A swarm of been entred on his head.
1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (1844) 207 Paid..to Jodge for a heve for beys iiij. d.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xi. 2 The Bey is but a small beast amonge the foules, yet is hir frute exceadinge swete.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 101 Delytyng in idulnes as a drowne be doth.
1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) vii. sig. S1v Who so keepe well Sheepe and Been, Sleepe or wake, their thrift comes in.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 A buzzing noise of Bees his Ears alarms. View more context for this quotation
1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha xxii. 284 Passed the bees, the honey-makers.
b. Often used as the type of busy workers.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [noun] > one who engages in an activity or occupation > one who is not idle or slothful
bee1535
worker1624
one of the world's workers1851
grafter1900
eager beaver1942
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 445 Now ar tha maid als bissie as ane be.
1574 J. Baret Aluearie To Rdr. A great volume, which (for the apt similitude betweene the good scholers and diligent Bees..) I called then their Aluearie..for a memoriall by whom it was made.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 196 The Popish Clergy..were as busie as Bees, newly ready to swarme.
c1720 I. Watts Divine & Moral Songs How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour!
1808 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems (ed. 2) 103 Busy and careful, like that working Bee.
c. A model or image of this insect.
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1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris xv. 297 The remains found in the tomb of Childeric, were chiefly gold bees, from which Buonaparte took the hint of covering his mantle..with representations of that insect.
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d. One of the southern constellations, so figured.
2. Applied to a large group of allied insects, chiefly with a distinguishing epithet, e.g. Humble Bee, Mason Bee, Carpenter Bee, etc.; in scientific use, including all insects of the Melliferous or honey-gathering division of the Aculeate (or sting-bearing) Hymenoptera, and comprising two families, the Social Bees or Apidae, and Solitary Bees or Andrænidæ.
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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
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 308 Feld beon hunig meng to somne.
1557 Confut. Tyndales Aunswere (new ed.) in Wks. Sir T. More 502/1 Till either some blind bettle, or some holy humble bee come flye in at their mouthes.
1802 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (1813) III. 275 The Garden Bee.
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §697 Of the solitary bees,..there are many curious varieties; some of which go under the names of Mason, Carpenter, and Upholsterer Bees, from the materials on which they respectively work.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. v. ii. 279 The Humble Bees are larger than the Bees.
3. figurative.
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a. A sweet writer.
b. A busy worker.
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1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Bee Xenophon is called the Attic bee.
1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. I. 4 A complete collection of classical works, all the bees of antiquity..may be hived in a single glass case.
c. ‘A lump of a yeast ( Saccharomyces pyriformis) intermittently rising and releasing bubbles in brew;—usually in plural’ (Webster 1934). So bee wine n. (see quot. 1960).
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > yeast
yeastc1000
ale yeasta1450
neaving1681
beer-yeast1857
gravel1882
hop-yeast1884
pitching yeast1885
bee1923
1923 Harmsworth's Househ. Encycl. I. 312/2 Bee wine is a modern name for the fermented drink produced by what was known as the ginger beer plant.
1923 Harmsworth's Househ. Encycl. I. 312/2 In its dry, inert condition the bee is a shapeless mass of gelatinous material.
1938 R. Graves Count Belisarius x. 206 The Massagetic Huns carried with them what is called a ‘bee’, a sort of yeast that they put into mare's milk to make it ferment.
1960 A. E. Bender Dict. Nutrition & Food Technol. 16/1 Bee wine, wine produced by the usual alcoholic fermentation of sugar, but using yeast in the form of a clump of yeast and lactic bacteria. The clump rises and falls with bubbles of carbon dioxide produced, hence the ‘bee’.
4.
a. To have bees in the head or the brains, a bee in one's bonnet: i.e. a fantasy, an eccentric whim, a craze on some point, a ‘screw loose.’ (Cf. maggot n.1 2a, and German Grille.)
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [verb (intransitive)] > be slightly mad > eccentric or cranky
bees in the head or the brains1553
fanaticize1715
to get a rat1890
(to have) bats in the belfryc1901
to have straws in one's hair1923
to take the bats1927
1553 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Eneados viii. Prol. 120 Quhat berne be thou in bed, with hede full of beis?
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. iv. sig. C.ij Who so hath suche bees as your maister in hys head.
1657 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 74 Which comes from brains which have a bee.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (ed. 9) II. 119 But thy wild bees I canna please.
1845 T. De Quincey Coleridge & Opium-eating in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 124/2 John Hunter, notwithstanding he had a bee in his bonnet, was really a great man.
b. bee's knee n. (a) a type of something small or insignificant; (b) plural (slang, originally U.S.), the acme of excellence; ‘the cat's whiskers’.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little importance or trivial
gnatc1000
ball play?c1225
smalla1250
triflec1290
fly1297
child's gamec1380
motec1390
mitec1400
child's playc1405
trufferyc1429
toyc1450
curiosity1474
fly-winga1500
neither mass nor matins1528
boys' play1538
nugament1543
knack?1544
fable1552
nincety-fincety1566
mouse1584
molehill1590
coot1594
scoff1594
nidgery1611
pin matter1611
triviality1611
minuity1612
feathera1616
fillip1621
rattle1622
fiddlesticka1625
apex1625
rush candle1628
punctilio1631
rushlight1635
notchet1637
peppercorn1638
petty John1640
emptiness1646
fool-fangle1647
nonny-no1652
crepundian1655
fly-biting1659
pushpin1660
whinny-whanny1673
whiffle1680
straw1692
two and a plack1692
fiddle1695
trivial1715
barley-strawa1721
nothingism1742
curse1763
nihility1765
minutia1782
bee's knee1797
minutiae1797
niff-naff1808
playwork1824
floccinaucity1829
trivialism1830
chicken feed1834
nonsensical1842
meemaw1862
infinitesimality1867
pinfall1868
fidfad1875
flummadiddle1882
quantité négligeable1885
quotidian1902
pipsqueak1905
hickey1909
piddle1910
cream puff1920
squat1934
administrivia1937
chickenshit1938
cream puff1938
diddly-squat1963
non-issue1965
Tinkertoy1972
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing > typical examples of
little fingerc1300
pear1340
hair1377
flea1388
a pin's head (also point)c1450
fitch1550
mouse1584
minnow1596
the pestle of a lark1598
nutshella1616
pinhead1662
pinpoint1670
rope yarn1751
bee's knee1797
peanut1864
postage stamp1881
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [noun] > excellent person or thing
carbunclea1350
swanc1386
phoenixc1400
diamondc1440
broocha1464
surmounterc1500
sovereign?a1513
primrose peerless1523
superlative1577
transcendent1593
Arabian birda1616
crack1637
first rate1681
peach1710
phoenicle1711
admiration1717
spanker1751
first-raterc1760
no slouch of1767
nailer1806
tip-topper1822
ripper1825
ripstaver1828
apotheosis1832
clinker1836
clipper1836
bird1839
keener1839
ripsnorter1840
beater1845
firecracker1845
pumpkin1845
screamer1846
stunner1847
bottler1855
beaut1866
bobby-dazzler1866
one out of the box1867
stem-winder1875
corker1877
trimmer1878
hot stuff1884
daisy1886
jim-dandy1887
cracker1891
jim-hickey1895
peacherino1896
pippin1897
alpha plus1898
peacherine1900
pip1900
humdinger1905
bosker1906
hummer1907
good egg1914
superstar1914
the berries1918
bee's knee1923
the cat's whiskers1923
smash1923
smash hit1923
brahma1925
dilly1935
piss-cutter1935
killer1937
killer-diller1938
a hard act to follow1942
peacheroo1942
bitch1946
brammerc1950
hot shit1960
Tiffany1973
bollocks1981
1797 Mrs. Townley Ward Let. 27 June in Notes & Queries (1896) X. 260 It cannot be as big as a bee's knee.
1870 G. M. Hopkins Jrnl. (1937) 133 Br. Yates gave me the following Irish expressions... As weak as a bee's knee.
1894 G. F. Northall Folk-phrases 7 As big as a bee's knee.
1923 H. C. Witwer Fighting Blood iii. 101 You're the bee's knees, for a fact!
1936 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) 561 The flea's eyebrows, the bee's knees and the canary's tusks will be recalled.
1958 Times 15 Aug. 9/4 Lord Montgomery..holds that to label anything the ‘cat's whiskers’ is to confer on it the highest honour, and the ‘bee's knees’ is not far behind it as a compliment.
c. to put the bee on (slang, chiefly U.S.): (a) to quash, put an end to; to beat; (b) to ask for a loan from, to borrow money from (cf. sting v.1 2e).
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to
astintc700
stathea1200
atstuntc1220
to put an end toa1300
to set end ofa1300
batec1300
stanch1338
stinta1350
to put awayc1350
arrestc1374
finisha1375
terminec1390
achievea1393
cease1393
removec1405
terminate?a1425
stop1426
surceasec1435
resta1450
discontinue1474
adetermine1483
blina1500
stay1525
abrogatea1529
suppressa1538
to set in or at stay1538
to make stay of1572
depart1579
check1581
intercept1581
to give a stop toa1586
dirempt1587
date1589
period1595
astayc1600
nip1600
to break off1607
snape1631
sist1635
to make (a) stop of1638
supersede1643
assopiatea1649
periodizea1657
unbusya1657
to put a stop to1679
to give the holla to1681
to run down1697
cessate1701
end1737
to choke off1818
stopper1821
punctuate1825
to put a stopper on1828
to take off ——1845
still1850
to put the lid on1873
on the fritz1900
to close down1903
to put the fritz on something1910
to put the bee on1918
switch1921
to blow the whistle on1934
society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (transitive)] > borrow money from
borrowa1000
touch1760
cadge1863
to sting (someone) for1903
to put the bee on1918
bite1919
to put the sleeve on1931
to put the bite on1933
the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat > defeat completely or do for
overthrowc1375
checkmatea1400
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
crusha1599
panga1600
to fetch off1600
finish1611
settle?1611
feague1668
rout1676
spiflicate1749
bowl1793
to settle a person's hash1795
dish1798
smash1813
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
thunder-smite1875
scuppera1918
to put the bee on1918
stonker1919
to wrap up1922
root1944
banjax1956
marmalize1966
1918 H. C. Witwer From Baseball to Boches 131 It's always open season for Americans over here. They sure know how to put the bee on you too.
1923 L. J. Vance Baroque xxvii. 264 I've heard a heap of fairy tales in my time..but this puts the bee on the lot.
1927 Wodehouse in Sunday Express 23 Oct. 9 The old boy..got the idea that I was off my rocker, and put the bee on the proceedings.
1929 Amer. Speech 4 338 ‘To put the bee on’, means to beg.
1931 G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 25 To say ‘I put the bee on him’ usually means that the donor has been ‘stung’, when he gives up the loan, since seldom is it repaid.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid v. 47 If a bloke had come up and put the bee on him all the handout would have been..a lousy tanner.
d. bees and honey: rhyming slang for ‘money’.
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society > trade and finance > money > [noun]
silverc825
feec870
pennieseOE
wortheOE
mintOE
scata1122
spense?c1225
spendinga1290
sumc1300
gooda1325
moneya1325
cattlec1330
muckc1330
reasona1382
pecunyc1400
gilt1497
argentc1500
gelta1529
Mammon1539
ale silver1541
scruff1559
the sinews of war1560
sterling1565
lour1567
will-do-all1583
shell1591
trasha1592
quinyie1596
brass1597
pecuniary1604
dust1607
nomisma1614
countera1616
cross and pilea1625
gingerbreada1625
rhinoa1628
cash1646
grig1657
spanker1663
cole1673
goree1699
mopus1699
quid1699
ribbin1699
bustle1763
necessary1772
stuff1775
needfula1777
iron1785
(the) Spanish1788
pecuniar1793
kelter1807
dibs1812
steven1812
pewter1814
brad1819
pogue1819
rent1823
stumpy1828
posh1830
L. S. D.1835
rivetc1835
tin1836
mint sauce1839
nobbins1846
ochre1846
dingbat1848
dough1848
cheese1850
California1851
mali1851
ducat1853
pay dirt1853
boodle?1856
dinero1856
scad1856
the shiny1856
spondulicks1857
rust1858
soap1860
sugar1862
coin1874
filthy1876
wampum1876
ooftish1877
shekel1883
oil1885
oof1885
mon1888
Jack1890
sploshc1890
bees and honey1892
spending-brass1896
stiff1897
mazuma1900
mazoom1901
cabbage1903
lettuce1903
Oscar Asche1905
jingle1906
doubloons1908
kale1912
scratch1914
green1917
oscar1917
snow1925
poke1926
oodle1930
potatos1931
bread1935
moolah1936
acker1939
moo1941
lolly1943
loot1943
poppy1943
mazoola1944
dosh1953
bickies1966
lovely jubbly1990
scrilla1994
1892 Answers 10 Sept. 276/1 ‘Bees and honey’..for ‘money’.
1935 ‘L. Luard’ Conquering Seas iii. 47 A skipper's life ain't all bees and honey.
1944 Amer. Speech 19 191/1.
1960 ‘J. Ashford’ Counsel for Def. v. 65 D'you reckon we'd waste good bees and honey on a slump like you for nothing.

Compounds

C1.
a. General attributive.
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bee-book n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > book about bees
bee-book1870
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 84 The teaching of the latest bee-book.
bee-comb n.
bee-garden n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > apiary
bee-yardc1420
bee-garden1609
bee-fold1623
apiary1654
apifactory1677
bee-range1845
1609 Gd. Speed to Virginia 13 The maister of the bee-garden..reapeth a greater gaine by his waxe and honie.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 200 A convenient..place..for your Apiary or Bee-garden.
bee-grub n.
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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) > larva
schadon1623
bee-grub1672
bee-maggot1686
brood1754
1672 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 7 5060 The Bee-grubbs actually feed on Mites.
bee-house n.
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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
1675 London Gaz. No. 987/4 A new Invention for the Improvement of Bees, by certain Bee-houses and Colonies.
1851 Gardeners' Chron. 755 A very convenient bee-house.
bee-mouth n.
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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) > mouth of bee
bee-mouth1820
1820 J. Keats Ode on Melancholy in Lamia & Other Poems 141 Pleasure..Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips.
bee-palace n.
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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
1845 Gardeners' Chron. 15 Mar. 171/3 Grove's American bee-palace is similar to the collateral hive.
bee-sting n.
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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) > sting of bee
prickc1350
prickle?c1425
spear1608
spine1656
bee-sting1689
1689 P. Henry Diaries & Lett. (1882) 346 Your Mother hath been afflicted this night with a Bee-sting.
bee-swarm n.
bee-woman n.
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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
1833 H. Martineau Briery Creek iii. 52 The bee-women laughed in anticipation of their sport.
bee-yard n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > apiary
bee-yardc1420
bee-garden1609
bee-fold1623
apiary1654
apifactory1677
bee-range1845
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1009 The Bee-yerd be not ferre, but faire asyde Gladsum, secrete, and hoote.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 179 About the Beeyard, and neare to the Hiues, set..flowres.
(b)
bee-winged adj.
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1923 E. Sitwell Bucolic Comedies 40 The bee-wing'd warm afternoon.
b. Objective with verbal noun or agent-noun.
(a)
bee-culture n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun]
bee-keeping1839
apiculture1864
bee-culture1882
bee-farming1908
1882 Harper's Mag. Dec. 63/1 Bee-culture is an important industry.
bee-farming n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun]
bee-keeping1839
apiculture1864
bee-culture1882
bee-farming1908
1908 P. G. Wodehouse & H. Westbrook Globe by Way Bk. 124 Lord Sangazure has tired already of his latest hobby, bee-farming.
bee-fumigator n.
bee-herd n.
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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
1483 Cath. Angl. 26 Beehyrd, apiaster.
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 201 It was preferable to be tenant of a holding rather than a swine-herd or bee-herd.
bee-hunt n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > hunting or catching insects
butterfly-catching1796
butterfly-hunting1796
bee-hunting1824
mothing1826
bee-hunt1835
wasp-nesting1872
bug chasing1875
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies ix. 61 (heading) A bee hunt.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. ii. 52 These frontier settlers..prepare for a bee hunt.
bee-hunter n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > hunter of specific animal > [noun] > of bees
bee-hunter1776
1776 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 44 The bee-hunters never fail to leave a small portion for their conductor.
1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Two Towers iii. iv. 67 Bear bee-hunter, boar the fighter.
bee-hunting n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > hunting or catching insects
butterfly-catching1796
butterfly-hunting1796
bee-hunting1824
mothing1826
bee-hunt1835
wasp-nesting1872
bug chasing1875
1824 W. N. Blane Excurs. through U.S. 239 It is a favourite amusement..to go bee-hunting.
bee-keeper n.
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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
1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xx. 211 It is a saying of bee-keepers in Holland, that [etc.].
1937 Discovery June 191/2 The most enthusiastic bee-keepers.
bee-keeping n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun]
bee-keeping1839
apiculture1864
bee-culture1882
bee-farming1908
1839 Sat. Mag. 23 Feb. 69 The Economy of Bee-Keeping.
bee-owner n.
bee-shepherd n.
bee-ward n.
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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
?1518 Cocke Lorelles Bote sig. B.vjv Mole sekers, and ratte takers Bewardes.
1883 J. R. Green Conq. Eng. 330 The bee-ward received his dues from the store of honey.
(b) Instrumental.
bee-beset adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > belonging to division Anthophila > of or belonging to bees > beset or infested with bees
bee-beset1870
bee-infesteda1882
bee-studded1881
bee-thronged1910
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 383 The bee-beset ripe-seeded grass.
bee-infested adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > belonging to division Anthophila > of or belonging to bees > beset or infested with bees
bee-beset1870
bee-infesteda1882
bee-studded1881
bee-thronged1910
a1882 R. W. Emerson Fragm. Nature in Poems (1904) 343 Bee-infested quince or plum.
1950 D. Gascoyne Vagrant 61 A loud Bee-Infested Lion-skin.
bee-studded adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > belonging to division Anthophila > of or belonging to bees > beset or infested with bees
bee-beset1870
bee-infesteda1882
bee-studded1881
bee-thronged1910
1881 O. Wilde Burden of Itys in Poems 68 Brown bee-studded orchids.
bee-thronged adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > belonging to division Anthophila > of or belonging to bees > beset or infested with bees
bee-beset1870
bee-infesteda1882
bee-studded1881
bee-thronged1910
1910 R. Kipling Rewards & Fairies p. x Winter's bee-thronged ivy-bloom.
C2. Special combinations. See also bee-bread n., bee-eater n., beehive n., beeswax n., beeswing n.
bee-bike n. Scottish a wild bee's nest.
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1837 R. Nicoll Poems (1843) 95 Nae apples he pu'ed now, nae bee-bikes he knowed.
bee-bird n. the Spotted Flycatcher, also a hummingbird.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Apodiformes > [noun] > family Trochilidae (humming-bird)
hummer1606
hum-bird1634
hummingbird1637
trochilus1752
bee-bird1771
honeysucker1773
fly-bird1782
coquette1854
satellite1857
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Muscicapinae > genus Muscicapa (fly-catcher) > muscicapa striata
white baker1441
bee-bird1771
rafter1802
rafter-bird1817
wall-plat1841
wall-bird1848
post bird1849
spider-catcher1854
cherry-chopper1888
1771 G. White Let. 12 Feb. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 139 These vast migrations consist not only of hirundines but of bee-birds.
1850 R. Browning Christmas-eve xxiii. 125 The bee-bird and the aloe-flower.
bee-bonneted adj. having a bee in his bonnet, somewhat crazed.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > slightly mad > eccentric or cranky
fantastical1531
odd1577
eccentric1685
fanaticized1827
cranky1850
bee-bonneted1856
cornery1887
screwy1887
kinky1889
crankish1892
ratty1895
batchy1898
batsc1901
batty1903
potty1920
offbeat1922
off-centre1930
wacky1935
screwball1936
up the creek1941
oddball1945
wackadoo1958
kooky1959
wiggy1963
flaky1964
nutball1968
woo-woo1971
wacko1977
off-kilter1985
wackadoodle1993
fantastic-
1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 40 Whom men judge hardly, as bee-bonnetted, Because he holds, [etc.].
bee-cell n. one of the hexagonal cells of the comb.
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the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > honey > [noun] > honeycomb > cell of
alveolus1744
bee-cell1868
1868 J. G. Wood Homes without Hands xxiii. 427 The primary object of the bee-cell is to serve as a storehouse and a nursery.
bee-cuckoo n. an African bird ( Cuculus indicator), also called ‘Honey-guide,’ which indicates the nests of wild bees.
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the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Indicatoridae (honey-guide)
honeybird1735
honeyguide1777
bee-cuckoo1786
indicator1835
1786 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope (ed. 2) II. 186 The bee-cuckow (Cuculus Indicator)..deserves to have more particular notice.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 302 The Bee Cuckoo, in its external appearance, does not much differ from the common sparrow.
bee-driving n. the driving of bees into an empty hive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > driving into hive
skepping1883
bee-driving1884
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 July 10/2 A sum of money which will enable them to give demonstrations of bee-driving.
bee-feeder n. a contrivance for feeding bees within the hive.
bee-fertilized adj. (of flowers) having their pollen conveyed to the stigma by the agency of bees.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [adjective] > characterized by pollination > involving specific agency
anemophilous1871
ornithophilous1871
zoidiophilous1872
bee-fertilized1881
hydrophilous1883
1881 F. Darwin in Nature 10 Feb. 334/1 The spread of the bee-fertilised ancestors.
bee-flower n. a flower loved, visited, or fertilized by bees, spec. the Wall-flower; also, a flower resembling a bee, the Bee Orchis.
bee-fly n. a two-winged fly resembling a bee, esp. certain of the Bombylidæ and Syrphidæ.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > member of family Bombyiidae
bee-fly1852
hover-flya1887
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Syrphidae > member of > resembling bee or eristalis tenax
drone fly1665
bee-fly1852
1852 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects New Eng. (ed. 2) 484 The bee-flies..often hover..over the early flowers, sucking out the honey thereof.
bee-fold n. an enclosure for hives.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > apiary
bee-yardc1420
bee-garden1609
bee-fold1623
apiary1654
apifactory1677
bee-range1845
1623 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (rev. ed.) ii. sig. E3v The vnequall leuelling of the ground..in a great Bee-fold is best.
1940 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Georgics iv. 82 Shoo the drones—that work-shy gang—away from the bee-folds.
bee-glue n. the glue-like substance with which bees fill up crevices, and fix the combs to the hives, propolis.
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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
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Propoli, that which Bees make at the entrance of the hiues to keepe out cold, called Beeglue.
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 907 Wax, Bee-bread, Bee-glew, Rosin, etc.
bee-gum n. a term in parts of U.S. for a beehive (originally a hollow gum tree or log housing a swarm of 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
1817 M. L. Weems Let. in Ford's M. L. Weens: Wks. & Ways (1929) III. 215 To be run..round & round the circumference of a Bee-Gum.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Bee-gum, in the South and West, a term originally applied to a species of the gum-tree from which bee-hives were made; and now to beehives made of any kind of boards.
1884 Cent. Mag. Jan. 442/2 The bees were for the most part rudely hived in cross sections of the gum-tree..whence..a bee-hive of any kind is often called a bee-gum.
bee-hawk n. a bird of prey ( Pernis apivora), also called Honey Buzzard; also a clear-wing hawkmoth ( Sesia fuciformis), something resembling a wild bee.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > pernis apivorus (honey-buzzard)
honey buzzard1673
bee-hawk1837
pern1840
honey kite1881
wasp-kite1891
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Sesiidae > member of
bee-hawk1837
1837 W. Macgillivray Hist. Brit. Birds III. 259 Bee-Hawk is of rare occurrence in any part of Britain.
1857 H. T. Stainton Man. Brit. Butterflies & Moths I. 99 Sesia fuciformis, Broad-bordered Bee-Hawk.
bee-hawkmoth n.
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1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. vi. 207 The bee-hawk-moth (Sesia apiformis, F.)..feeds upon the poplar.
bee-head n. a crazy pate.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [noun] > insanity or madness > mad head
bee-head1657
1657 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 135 Ye sectaries, quoth he, have bee-heads.
bee-headed adj.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > insanity or madness > affected with
woodc725
woodsekc890
giddyc1000
out of (by, from, of) wit or one's witc1000
witlessc1000
brainsickOE
amadc1225
lunaticc1290
madc1330
sickc1340
brain-wooda1375
out of one's minda1387
frenetica1398
fonda1400
formada1400
unwisea1400
brainc1400
unwholec1400
alienate?a1425
brainless1434
distract of one's wits1470
madfula1475
furious1475
distract1481
fro oneself1483
beside oneself1490
beside one's patience1490
dementa1500
red-wood?1507
extraught1509
misminded1509
peevish1523
bedlam-ripe1525
straughta1529
fanatic1533
bedlama1535
daft1540
unsounda1547
stark raving (also staring) mad1548
distraughted1572
insane1575
acrazeda1577
past oneself1576
frenzy1577
poll-mad1577
out of one's senses1580
maddeda1586
frenetical1588
distempered1593
distraught1597
crazed1599
diswitted1599
idle-headed1599
lymphatical1603
extract1608
madling1608
distracteda1616
informala1616
far gone1616
crazy1617
March mada1625
non compos mentis1628
brain-crazed1632
demented1632
crack-brained1634
arreptitiousa1641
dementate1640
dementated1650
brain-crackeda1652
insaniated1652
exsensed1654
bedlam-witteda1657
lymphatic1656
mad-like1679
dementative1685
non compos1699
beside one's gravity1716
hyte1720
lymphated1727
out of one's head1733
maddened1735
swivel-eyed1758
wrong1765
brainsickly1770
fatuous1773
derangedc1790
alienated1793
shake-brained1793
crack-headed1796
flighty1802
wowf1802
doitrified1808
phrenesiac1814
bedlamite1815
mad-braineda1822
fey1823
bedlamitish1824
skire1825
beside one's wits1827
as mad as a hatter1829
crazied1842
off one's head1842
bemadded1850
loco1852
off one's nut1858
off his chump1864
unsane1867
meshuga1868
non-sane1868
loony1872
bee-headed1879
off one's onion1881
off one's base1882
(to go) off one's dot1883
locoed1885
screwy1887
off one's rocker1890
balmy or barmy on (or in) the crumpet1891
meshuggener1892
nutty1892
buggy1893
bughouse1894
off one's pannikin1894
ratty1895
off one's trolley1896
batchy1898
twisted1900
batsc1901
batty1903
dippy1903
bugs1904
dingy1904
up the (also a) pole1904
nut1906
nuts1908
nutty as a fruitcake1911
bugged1920
potty1920
cuckoo1923
nutsy1923
puggled1923
blah1924
détraqué1925
doolally1925
off one's rocket1925
puggle1925
mental1927
phooey1927
crackers1928
squirrelly1928
over the edge1929
round the bend1929
lakes1934
ding-a-ling1935
wacky1935
screwball1936
dingbats1937
Asiatic1938
parlatic1941
troppo1941
up the creek1941
screwed-up1943
bonkers1945
psychological1952
out to lunch1955
starkers1956
off (one's) squiff1960
round the twist1960
yampy1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
out of one's skull1967
whacked out1969
batshit1971
woo-woo1971
nutso1973
out of (one's) gourd1977
wacko1977
off one's meds1986
1879 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) (at cited word) Ye needna mind him, he's a bee-headit bodie.
bee-larkspur n. (see quot.).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > delphinium or larkspur
red maytheeOE
brown maythec1450
lark's foota1500
red maidweed1548
consound1578
lark's claw1578
larkspur1578
ox-eye1578
red camomile1578
Adonis1597
lark-heel1597
lark's toes1597
monkshood1597
rose-a-ruby1597
delphinium1666
pheasant's eye1727
red Morocco1760
rocket larkspur1778
blue rocket larkspur1784
bee-larkspur1846
1846 J. W. Loudon Ladies' Compan. Flower Garden 37 The Bee Larkspurs..their petals are folded up in the centre of the flower, so as to resemble a bee or a blue-bottle-fly.
bee-like adj. resembling a bee.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > belonging to division Anthophila > of or belonging to bees > resembling a bee
bee-like1657
1657 S. Purchas' Pol. Flying-Ins. Pref. Verses To the Learned Author of this Bee-like laborious Treatise.
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XI viii. 107 That bee-like, bubbling, busy hum Of cities.
bee-loud adj. resonant with the hum of bees.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > of places > with bees
bee-loud1890
1890 W. B. Yeats Lake Isle of Innisfree i [I will] live alone in the bee-loud glade.
bee-louse n. an insect of the family Braulidæ, parasitic on bees, esp. Braula cœca.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Cyclorrhapha > family Braulidae > member of
bee-louse1840
1840 J. Loudon & M. Loudon tr. V. Köllar Treat. Insects i. 74 A bee infested with a bee-louse, endeavours..to get rid of such an unwished-for guest.
1875 J. Hunter Man. Bee-keeping xxx. 198 On the Continent of Europe a small insect known as the Bee-louse, Braula Cœca, often infects the Bees.
bee-maggot n. the larva of a 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) > larva
schadon1623
bee-grub1672
bee-maggot1686
brood1754
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. vi. 221 Of the corruption of which bee-maggots..are bred.
bee-man n. a bee-keeper.
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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
1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 82 Our best bee men.
1928 Daily Tel. 11 May 19/5 Uncontrolled swarming..is not permitted by the experienced modern beeman.
bee-master n. a keeper of bees, an apiarian.
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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
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 902 The Bee-masters with clapping of their hands, and with the sound of the brasse.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xviii. 399 The bee-master was apparently as rare as he is at present.
bee-mistress n.
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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
1859 Edinb. Rev. 109 301 The bee-mistresses..gain a living by their honey in many rural districts.
bee-moth n. U.S. Galleria mellonella: = wax-moth n. at wax n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Pyralidae > member of genus Galleria
wax-moth1766
bee-moth1829
hive-moth1931
1829 Massachusetts Spy 27 May Instinct teaches the bee-moth to secrete herself, during the day, in the corners of the hive.
1838 H. Colman 1st Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 71 The bee moth is to be guarded against by making the crevices of the hive tight with putty or glue.
1862 T. W. Harris Treat. Insects Injurious to Vegetation (ed. 3) 489 The group called Crambidæ, or Crambians, among which the bee-moth or wax-moth is to be placed.
bee-nettle n. species of Dead-nettle much visited by bees.
bee-orchis n. a plant ( Ophrys apifera) noted for the resemblance of part of its flower to a bee.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids
satyrionOE
bollockwort?a1300
sanicle14..
bollock?a1425
martagon1548
orchis1559
dogstones1562
hare's-ballocks1562
stone1562
bollock grass1578
dog's cods1578
dog's cullions1578
double-leaf1578
fly-orchis1578
goat's cullions1578
goat's orchis1578
priest's pintle1578
twayblade1578
bee-orchis1597
bifoil1597
bird's nest1597
bird's orchis1597
butterfly orchis1597
fenny-stones1597
gelded satyrion1597
gnat satyrion1597
humble-bee orchis1597
lady's slipper1597
sweet ballocks1597
two-blade1605
cullions1611
bee-flower1626
fly-flower1640
man orchis1670
musk orchis1670
moccasin flower1680
gnat-flower1688
faham tea1728
Ophrys1754
green man orchis1762
Arethusa1764
honey flower1771
cypripedium1775
rattlesnake plantain1778
Venus's slipper1785
Adam and Eve1789
lizard orchis179.
epidendrum1791
Pogonia?1801
Vanda1801
cymbidium1815
Oncidium1822
putty-root1822
Noah's Ark1826
yellow moccasin1826
gongora1827
cattleya1828
green man1828
nervine1828
stanhopea1829
dove-flower1831
catasetum1836
Odontoglossum1836
Miltonia1837
letter plant1838
spread eagle1838
letter-leaf1839
swan-plant1841
orchid1843
disa1844
masdevallia1845
Phalaenopsis1846
faham1850
Indian crocus1850
moccasin plant1850
pleione1851
dove orchis1852
nerve root1854
Holy Ghost flower1862
basket-plant1865
lizard's tongue1866
mousetail1866
Sobralia1866
swan-neck1866
swanwort1866
Indian shoe1876
odontoglot1879
wreathewort1879
moth orchid1880
rattlesnake orchid1881
dendrobe1882
dove-plant1882
Madeira orchis1882
man orchis1882
swan-flower1884
slipper-orchid1885
slipper orchis1889
mayflower1894
scorpion orchid1897
moederkappie1910
dove orchid1918
monkey orchid1925
man orchid1927
1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 163 Bees Orchis or Satyrion.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 7 Not one in twenty of you knows where to find the..bee-orchis..on the down.
bee-range n. U.S. a row of beehives.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > apiary
bee-yardc1420
bee-garden1609
bee-fold1623
apiary1654
apifactory1677
bee-range1845
1845 S. Judd Margaret iii. 402 In the garden is a large Bee-range.
bee-skep n. (also bee-scap) a straw beehive.
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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
a1634 J. Day Parl. Bees (Lansd. 725) f. 22v & set fier of all there Beeskepps.
1822 Steam-Boat 83 (Jam.) My head was bizzing like a bee-scap.
bee-smoker n. a bee-keeper's apparatus for driving smoke into a hive to stupefy the bees while the honeycomb is being removed.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > bee-keeping > [noun] > bee-keeping equipment
mantle1609
crown pina1642
queen cage1853
foundation1867
smoker1875
comb-foundation1880
honey bucket1886
bee-smoker1897
1897 Westm. Gaz. 7 Aug. 8/1 A bee-smoker filled with tobacco and brown paper.
† bee-stall n. Obsolete a beehive.
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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
1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie iii. f. 18v The weasel..is..a destroyer of Beestals, and eateth up their honey.
bee-tree n. originally U.S. a tree in which bees have hived.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > [noun] > as home for birds or bees
nest tree1766
bee-tree1782
raven-tree1789
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer ii. 37 If we find..what is called a bee-tree, we must mark it.
1834 H. M. Brackenridge Recoll. xii. 129 A harmless fellow, who followed hunting bee trees on the mountains for a living.
1849 W. Irving Crayon Misc. 49 Honey, the spoils of a plundered bee-tree.
bee-wine n. nectar of a flower.
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the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > nectar or honey-dew
honeyeOE
nectar1609
mildew1658
stroke1742
bee-wine1818
aphis-sugar1842
1818 J. Keats Endymion iv. 193 Honeysuckles full of clear bee-wine.

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bee-stung adj. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.) (of a woman's lips) attractively full and red, naturally pouting.
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1858 G. A. Sala Journey due North xvi. 351 The Russian beauties are either of Circassian, Georgian, or Mingrelian origin—dark-eyed, dark skinned, full bee-stung lipped, and generally Houri-looking; or they are the rounded German-Frauleins.
1920 Photoplay July 103/1 Mae Murry [sic]... The blonde with the bee-stung lips—originally so-called by this magazine, but since by many others—has one more picture to make.
1953 S. J. Perelman By Waters Razz-Ma-Tazz in New Yorker 3 Jan. 15/1 I remember bee-stung lips pouting out of a heavy mask of rice powder.
2000 You & your Wedding Mar. 64/1 Unfortunately, we're not all..blessed with flawless skin, bee-stung lips and come-to-bed eyes, so cheat on the big day!

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bee orchid n. any of various terrestrial, chiefly European orchids constituting the genus Ophrys, which have flowers resembling bees or other insects; spec. the widespread O. apifera, which has flowers with pale pink sepals and a large, brown, felt-like lip. Bee orchid flowers mimic female bees or wasps, both visually and by scent, thus stimulating pseudocopulation of them by the male insects and ensuring pollination.
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1849 Eclectic Rev. Feb. 202 Familiar wonders of our own green pastures... Among these are the bee-orchids, the fly, and spider-orchids.
1907 Nature Notes Aug. 156 My host has a field in which large quantities of Bee Orchids have recently appeared.
1966 J. Sankey Chalkland Ecol. iii. 47 Some [plants] range as far as North Africa, e.g. yellow-wort Blackstonia perfoliata (L.), traveller's joy Clematis vitalba L..., bee orchid Ophrys apifera Huds...and candytuft Iberis amara L.
2008 P. Scott Physiol. & Behaviour Plants xv. 232/2 Possibly the most remarkable form of mimicry in the plant kingdom is found in the genus Ophrys, the bee orchids.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

been.2

Brit. /biː/, U.S. /bi/
Forms: Old English–Middle English béah, beaȝ, Middle English beȝ, beie, beh, behȝ, Middle English beȝe, Middle English beygh, byȝe, bie, beeȝ, Middle English beghe, be, bey, Middle English by(e, Middle English–1800s bee, 1800s beag.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English béag, béah = Old Norse baugr, Old High German bouc < Germanic *baugo-z ring, < preterite stem of the verb *bug-, baug-, to bow, bend (intransitive). The modern form in south would probably have been by, or bigh (compare high, nigh): bee is the northern type.
†1. A ring or torque of metal, usually meant for the arm or neck; but in one case at least used of a finger-ring. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun]
ringOE
beec1009
languet1378
Collar of SS., S's, or Esses1406
tablet?a1425
fetterlock1463
serpent-tongue1488
triangle1529
flory1530
gorget1570
medal1578
tablet jewel1599
sprig1602
bracelet1624
medallion1658
croisette1688
torques1693
scarabaeus1775
crosslet1802
torque1834
teardrop1870
scarab1878
scaraboid1879
scarabaeoid1887
squash blossom1923
clip1937
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > ring > [noun]
ringOE
beec1300
bague1477
hoop1507
woup1511
famble-cheat1567
famble1688
gem1725
fawney1819
groin1931
c1009 Ælfric Genesis xxxviii. 18 Þinne hring & þine béah and þinne stæf.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 313 Armilla, beah.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 193 Þu ham ȝiuest..beies and gold ringes.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12236 Enne beh [c1300 Otho ȝeord] of rede gold.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10798 Behȝes [c1300 Otho beȝes] of golde.
c1300 K. Alis. 1572 Riche beyghes, besans, and pans.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 161 Beren biȝes [v.r. beiȝes, behes, byes, beȝes] ful briȝte abouten here nekkes.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. i. 9 A beȝe [a1425 L.V. bie] to thi necke.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 331 A bye is torques in Latyn.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 466 On arme oþer fynger, þaȝ þou ber byȝe.
c1440 Morte Arth. (Roxb.) 84 Pomelles bryghte as goldis beghe.
c1440 Morte Arth. (Roxb.) 102 Wt many a besaunte, broche, and be.
1483 Cath. Angl. 24 A Bee, armilla, brachiale.
1487 Will of Elizabeth Poynings in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 211 A bee with a grete pearl.
c1490 Howard Househ. Bks. 394 Item, for beyes, roppe, and streyneres xjd.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bee or collar of gold or syluer, torques.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. ii. i. 39 To swear upon ‘the holy beag’ was the most solemn oath known.
2. Nautical: bees, bee-blocks, bee-seating; see quot.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > annular quality > ring > of stiff material
hoopa1175
girthc1356
bail1447
garter1556
girse1591
beesc1860
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > other framing or supporting timbers
weyr1296
stanchiona1626
sleeper1626
cant1794
newel1831
dead-flat1850
bee-seatingc1860
truss-piece1867
wiver1894
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > fixed rigging > rigging supporting mast laterally > block on bowsprit for foremast stays
bee-blocksc1860
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 74 At the outer end, and on each side of the bowsprit, inside the cap, bees and bee blocks are bolted, for the topmast stays to reeve through.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 74 Where it rests on the stem is the bed, and the remainder the beeseating.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Bee, a ring or hoop of metal..Bee-blocks, pieces of hard wood, bolted to the outer end of the bowsprit, to reeve the fore mast stays through.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

been.3

Brit. /biː/, U.S. /bi/
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English bean , bean ; bee n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps (i) a variant of English regional bean, been voluntary help from neighbours for the accomplishment of a particular task (perhaps itself a variant of boon n.1); or perhaps (ii) an extended use of bee n.1, with allusion to the social character of the insect.
Originally U.S.
An informal social gathering or party of neighbours, organized to carry out a specific activity, participate in a competition, etc.; (hence also) any gathering or meeting focused on a particular activity. Frequently with preceding modifying word indicating the activity carried out or the reason for the gathering. See also apple bee n., quilting bee, raising bee n., spelling bee n., etc.
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1769 Boston-gaz. 16 Oct. Last Thursday about Twenty young Ladies met at the house of Mr. Nehemiah Liscombe, here, on purpose for a Spinning Match; (or what is call'd in the Country a Bee).
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. iii. v. 212 I made a bee; that is, I collected as many of the most expert and able-bodied of the settlers to assist at the raising.
1910 Washington Post 19 Jan. 1/5 It was the annual lip-reading bee of a New York school for the hard of hearing.
1958 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 3 Feb. 6/3 A stitching bee was held by Mrs Charles Martz at the home of her son-in-law and daughter.
2000 N.Y. Times 4 June xiv. 5/1 The National Geographic Society started the bee about 12 years ago because it was concerned that Americans knew too little about geography.
2021 Mercury (Hobart, Austral.) (Nexis) 19 Jan. 60 At a bushfire relief crafting bee held at the Taroona Community Hall last weekend, a musically gifted (but non-crafty) person contributed by playing piano in the background, while about 60 others got to work with sewing machines, scissors, patterns, fabrics, needles and yarn.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

been.4

Etymology: The name of the letter B.
Used for ‘bloody’ (see bloody adj. 8, 2); so bee aitch, bloody hell; bee eff, bloody fool. slang.
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [noun] > euphemisms for stronger oaths
minced oath?1654
blank1854
adjective1888
bee1926
muck1952
F-word1956
C-word1979
N-word1985
XXXX1985
F-bomb1987
1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon i. iii. 21 This is a bee map... Quite the bee-est map I ever saw.
1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. ii. 230 It's a bee nuisance.
1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. ii. 231 We have the best goods..and we must bee well deliver them.
1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song i. vii Mr. Blythe's continual remark: ‘What the bee aitch are they all about?’
1960 M. Cecil Something in Common i. 22 ‘Your mother's relations,’ he muttered, ‘bee effs, every one of 'em.’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

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BEE
BEE n. (in or with reference to South Africa) = black economic empowerment n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a).In quot. 1989 punning on beeline n.
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1989 P. Browning Black Econ. Empowerm. i. 17 Black economic empowerment..has even given rise to ad-agency type slogans such as ‘make a BEE-line for power’.
1993 T. Sono Black Econ. Empowerm. 14 One of the most important concepts underlying BEE, but rarely emphasised, is the notion of black self-help.
2005 Blink Feb. 59/1 BEE is a commercial imperative for companies doing business in SA.
2017 Mercury (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 30 Nov. 4 DAE Construction is a registered BEE company and is committed to promoting equal opportunity.
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