hive

noun

1. An itchy, red, swollen area of the skin; singular or attributive form of hives.

   “[…] if you are allergic to it, the skin produces a localized red, itchy reaction, a hive. The hive appears within minutes of the allergy skin test and lasts up to approximately 24 hours.”

   “Most people will develop a small, itchy hive at the site of the sting that will subside in 30 to 60 minutes (sting may be accompanied by burning pain). Each ant inflicts seven to eight stings. Within 4 hours, a small blister will develop at the site.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”). See also Dutch huif (“beehive”), Danish dialect huv (“ship’s hull”); also Latin cūpa (“tub, vat”), Ancient Greek κύπη (kúpē, “gap, hole”), κύπελλον (kúpellon, “beaker”), Sanskrit कूप (kū́pa, “cave”). Doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve. The computing term was chosen as an in-joke relating to bees; see this for more.

1. To collect (bees) into a hive.

   “to hive a swarm of bees”

2. To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.

   “Hiving wisdom with each studious year.”

3. To form a hive-like entity.
4. To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.

   “The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, / Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day / More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me; / Therefore I part with him; and part with him / To one what I would have him help to waste / His borrowed purse. […]”

   “1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities”

5. Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.