The drones, as it were, had to rest at their stations, constantly maintaining the hive for the greater good.
When Ali Salameh arrived at Black September headquarters in Beirut, he found a hive of furious activity.
Since the mid-19th century, Sicily has been known as a hive of Mafioso activity.
This conservative, evangelical megachurch, just outside San Diego, is a hive of activity on a Sunday morning.
Burt called on his beekeeper pal, who scooped up the bees from the fencepost with his bare hands, and dumped them into a hive.
The operating-room was a hive of industry, and tongues kept pace with fingers.
And Damascus is the very 309 hive of turbans, green and otherwise.
Another way is to invert the hive in which the united swarms are to live, and strike the bees of the other hive into it as before.
If any bees remain in the box when taken away, a little smoke will drive them out, and they will quickly return to their own hive.
But, as there is no natural ruler of the hive, they meet together and make laws.
Old English hyf "beehive," from Proto-Germanic *hufiz (cf. Old Norse hufr "hull of a ship"), from PIE *keup- "round container, bowl" (cf. Sanskrit kupah "hollow, pit, cave," Greek kypellon "cup," Latin cupa "tub, cask, vat"). Figurative sense of "swarming, busy place" is from 1630s. As a verb, of bees, etc., "to form themselves into a hive," c.1400; "to put bees in a hive," mid-15c.
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To understand (1935+ West Point)
