hive
/haɪv/ verbo C2En español: meter en una colmena, apiñarse
- To collect (bees) into a hive. · to hive a swarm of bees
- To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.
- To form a hive-like entity.
- To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body. · 1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities
- Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.
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When he reached the hollow of the tree, he found a hive full of honey.
As to the Admiralty—it is buzzing like an overturned bee-hive.
So Baloo, the Teacher of the Law, taught him the Wood and Water Laws: how to tell a rotten branch from a sound one; how to speak politely to the wild bees when he came upon a hive of them fifty feet above ground; what to say to Mang the Bat when he disturbed him in the branches at midday; and how to warn the water-snakes in the pools before he splashed down among them.
Morrel’s daughter, and had remained with him in spite of the efforts of his friends to induce him to withdraw; the other was an old one-eyed cashier, called “Cocles,” or “Cock-eye,” a nickname given him by the young men who used to throng this vast now almost deserted bee-hive, and which had so completely replaced his real name that he would not, in all probability, have replied to anyone who addressed him by it.
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