unhive

1. (transitive) To drive or remove (bees) from a hive.Examples: "[T]he Mercers encreaſing prodigiouſly vvent back into the City; there like Bees unhiv'd they hover about a vvhile, not knovving vvhere to fix; but at laſt, as if they vvould come back to the old Hive in Pater-noſter Rovv, but could not be admitted, the ſvvarm ſettled on Lu[d]gate-hill."; "and unhived those numerous swarms of labouring bees which used to drop honey-dews over all this kingdom, to place in their room swarms of senseless drones."; "His broad hands smoothed her head, as fain to brush it free From fancies, swarms that stung like bees unhived."transitive

2. (archaic, transitive) To expel (a crowd, etc.) of habitation or shelter; to disband.Examples: "But if there be any who are herin delinquent; it were more justice and generosity to give a Catalogue of such Drones to those who have an undoubted Power to make them Labour, or Unhive them: And that the Righteous be not as the Wicked."; "We need no more, one age will discover the effects; the people insensibly file northwards, where they intrench themselves in the mud; the ocean is debarred her wantering, the hollow land made frim, the lakes drained; the loose sand becomes a stable foundation for great emporiums; the ancient cities of Flanders, Brabant, and Arois unhive themselves into the new ones of Holland, Zealand, and West Friesland; and, in a word, the younger colonies (notwithstanding the disadvantages of nature) yielding an asylum to liberty, shall equal and far exceed what the former ever were."; "We conquering Ensigns to Rome might extend, If each man was faithful and true to his friend; There to unhive the old Pope and his Crew, And lead them in Triumph New London to view :"archaictransitive