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hive
1. a structure in which social bees live and rear their young
2. a colony of social bees
hive [hīv]
(agriculture)
beehive


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The heat of the hive had risen with the June honey-flow, and though the farmers worked, until their wings ached, to keep people cool, everybody suffered.
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The humming ceased by degrees, and the hive eventually yielded several pounds of the sweetest honey, with which Ned Land filled his haversack.
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