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Vespiary. World English Historical Dictionary

Vespiary. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Vespiary [Irreg. f. L. vesp-a wasp, after apiary. Cf. med.L. vesparium.] A wasps’ nest.

1 1817.  Kirby & Sp., Entomol., II. 108. The number of females in a populous vespiary is considerable.

2 1830.  Insect Architecture (L.E.K.), 71. We have never met with a single vespiary in any situation likely to have been frequented by moles.

3 1834.  Trewman’s Exeter Flying-Post, 30 Oct., 2/6. The vespiary troop gave no quarters, the honoured Curate was treated with an equal degree of bitter hostility as the hoary-headed sexton, and several persons were stung.

4 1890.  Science-Gossip, XXVI. 122/1. Wasps clothe their vespiary with ten or twelve layers of paper.

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