Nide

Quick meaning: Nide is a noun meaning (archaic) A nest of pheasants.

Meaning

(archaic) A nest of pheasants.

Example Sentences

[A] nide of pheasants are sometimes collected in a very small space, and in the middle of the day conceal themselves very close.

[I]f a hen pheasant takes to new ground, at such a late period of the season, she may be likely to stay and build her nest there, and thus a nide may be lost in the following October.

[W]e were highly entertained with the antics of two stoats, who had left their hiding places to commence nocturnal depredations; [...] in the course of a few minutes the whirring of a nide of pheasants convinced us these little vermin had marked them as prey.

Reynard [i.e., a fox], in his thieving rambles, one night the summer before last visited the pleasure-gardens in Cornbury Park, and there he found and carried off a hen pheasant while sitting on her nest. The same evening a barn-door hen, with a nide of pheasants also disappeared.

Word Forms

• nides
• nid

Synonyms for nide

Depending on context, synonyms include nid, nye.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brood, nias, raga, araki.

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