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Hiving

Hive \Hive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hived; p. pr. & vb. n. Hiving.]

  1. To collect into a hive; to place in, or cause to enter, a hive; as, to hive a swarm of bees.

  2. To store up in a hive, as honey; hence, to gather and accumulate for future need; to lay up in store.

    Hiving wisdom with each studious year.
    --Byron.

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hiving

vb. (present participle of hive English)

Usage examples of "hiving".

There were flies everywhere, big green metallic flies that buzzed like hiving bees and came to settle on my lips and eyes.

Below this diadem hung, pendent, clusters of other disks, swarmed like the globular hiving of the constellation Hercules' captured stars.