1. hives - Noun
2. hives - Verb
The croup.
An eruptive disease (Varicella globularis), allied to the chicken pox.
Source: Webster's dictionaryInstead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. Jonathan Swift
I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives. Brit Marling
Thus every Part was full of Vice, Yet the whole Mass a Paradise; Flatter'd in Peace, and fear'd in Wars, They were th' Esteem of Foreigners, And lavish of their Wealth and Lives, The Balance of all other Hives. Bernard Mandeville
I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives. Cat Deeley
I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides. Patti Smith
To sell honey to one who keeps hives. Portuguese Proverb