Reverse Dictionary: BEE

ADJECTIVES
1627 ► CASTING swarming; said of bees 
1713 ► BOMBYLIOUS buzzing, humming, like a large bee → obs.
1899 ► POLYTROPIC visiting the flowers of many species: said of a bee or other insect
1902 ► KAMING issuing forth in a stream when leaving the hive to swarm, ‘towthering’; said of bees → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

NOUNS
..700 ► DOR → DORR a bumblebee, a drone bee, a hornet → obs.
1350 ► PRICK the sting of a bee, scorpion, etc. → obs.
1420 ► CASTRATION the act of taking away a portion of the honey from the hive → obs.
1450 ► HUMBLE-BEE a bumblebee
1486 ► DRIFT a swarm of bees → obs.
1494 ► SKEP a beehive 
1532 ► BUTT a beehive; a man-made receptacle used as a home for a colony of bees; a hiveful of bees → chiefly Eng. dial.
1555 ► HUMBLEDORY a drone → obs.
1570 ► PYCHE a beehive → Eng. dial.
1572 ► BEE-STALL a beehive → obs.
1579 ► MASTER-BEE a queen bee → obs.
1598 ► HONEY-PEOPLE honey bees → obs.
1599 ► BUMBLE a bumblebee
1601 ► SIREN a drone bee → obs.
1601 ► SLOWBACK a drone-bee → obs.
1605 ► BUMBEE a bumblebee → chiefly Sc.
1609 ► HACKLE the conical straw roofing of a beehive 
1609 ► SKIRT the rim or base of a beehive 
1614 ► BUMBARD → BUMBART a bumblebee → Sc. obs.
1622 ► APIFACTURE the work of bees; the production of honey by bees → obs.
1640 ► BEE-SKEP a straw beehive 
1642 ► SMOOT a narrow passage or entrance in a beehive → N. Eng. dial.
1656 ► SPINE the sting of a bee → obs.
1658 ► HACK a cover of a beehive → obs.
1681 ► TEE-HOLE the entrance to a beehive → Eng. dial.
1695 ► BEE-SCAP → BEE-SKIP a beehive → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1766 ► MONARCH-BEE the queen bee → obs.
1778 ► ENGLISHMAN’S FLY a bee → US
1787 ► DUMBLEDORE a bumblebee → Eng. dial.
1790 ► BEE-BUTT a beehive → Eng. dial.
1790 ► BIKE a nest of wild bees, wasps, etc.; a nestful of bees, a swarm → Sc. & Eng. dial.
19C.. ► RUSKIE a straw beehive → Sc.
1808 ► BUMBEE a bumblebee → Amer. dial.
1817 ► BEE GUM a hollow tree or log used as a beehive; any beehive → Amer. dial.
1822 ► BIKING → BYKING a hive, a swarm → Sc.
1822 ► BUMMER a bumblebee; any insect which makes a buzzing or humming sound
1825 ► BEE-LIPPEN a beehive → Eng. dial.
1825 ► BUMBLER a bumblebee → orig. Eng. dial.
1837 ► BEE-BIKE a wild bee’s nest → Sc.
1840 ► TANG-RANG the noise made when bees were swarming → Eng. dial.
1843 ► SCAP → SCAPE → SKAPE a beehive → Sc. obs.
1868 ► BEEDOM the realm of bees 
1869 ► GUM a beehive → Amer. dial.
1870 ► RED-DOUP a bee → Sc.
1872 ► BEE-HOPPET a beehive → Eng. dial.
1876 ► BUMBLE a bumblebee → Amer. dial.
1878 ► BEE-PEITCH a beehive → Eng. dial.
1879 ► BEE-POT a beehive → Eng. dial.
1881 ► DRUMBLEDORE a bumblebee 
1882 ► BEE STAND a beehive → Amer. dial.
1883 ► BUMBLER BEE a bumblebee → Amer. dial.
1892 ► BEE’S WISP a wild bee’s nest on the surface of the ground → Eng. dial.
1892 ► CHEWGAH BAG the wild bee’s store of honey → Aust. Aboriginal usage (Bk.)
1893 ► BIG-BEE a drone → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BEEN bees → Ireland & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1901 ► SKIP a beehive → Amer. dial.
1904 ► SCHADONS young bees → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► MAIDEN-SWARM a swarm of bees coming from a swarm of the same year → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► NANNY a stingless humble-bee → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► TAKING a swarm of bees → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BINK a wasps’ or wild bees’ nest → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 ► BUMBLER a bumblebee → Amer. dial.
1927 ► BAKER a wild bee unable to sting → Sc.
1968 ► BUMBLY BEE a bumblebee → Amer. dial.
1968 ► CONE a beehive; a honeycomb → Amer. dial.
1991 ► APIMANIA an abnormal love of bees (Bk.)
1991 ► APIOPHOBIA an intense fear of bees (Bk.)
1991 ► APIPHOBIA an intense fear of bees (Bk.)
1991 ► MELISSOPHOBIA an intense fear of bees → 1991 (Bk.)

NOUNS, PERSON
1483 ► BEE-HERD a beekeeper 
1500 ► BEE-WARD a beekeeper 
1707 ► HIVER a person who hives bees 
1833 ► BEE-WOMAN a woman bee-keeper 
1859 ► BEE-SHEPHERD a person appointed to superintend and watch over the hives (Bk.)
1883 ► APICULTURIST a beekeeper 
2006 ► BEE-HAVER a person who has beehives but doesn’t take proper care of the bees → beekeepers’ usage, derogatory (Bk.)

VERBS
1609 ► HACKLE to cover a beehive with a hackle or straw roof 
19C.. ► TEE to buzz; said of bees → Eng. dial.
1825 ► SKEP to cause to enter a skep (beehive) 
1854 ► BOMBILATE to hum or buzz like a bee, or a top when spinning 
1888 ► BALL to surround the queen in a dense cluster, often with the result that she is suffocated or crushed to death; said of bees 
1911 ► BIKE to swarm like bees → Sc. (Bk.)