nide

noun

1. (archaic)A nest of pheasants.

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

   “[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.”

   “[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.”

   “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.”

   “The breeding season of the present year has been favourable to young pheasants. The most glowing accounts are from Devon, Cornwall, some of the Midland counties, and from Yorkshire, where the wild nides are strong and healthy, and keepers have been very successful with the hand-reared stock.”

name

1. a Polynesian language spoken in Vanuatu.