单词 | nide |
释义 | niden. A brood or nest of pheasants.In quot. 1896: the nest of a goose. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > genus Phasianus > phasianus colchicus (pheasant) > brood nyec1400 eyea1475 nide1679 the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > genus Phasianus > phasianus colchicus (pheasant) > nest of nide1808 1679 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. (ed. 2) A nide of pheasants, phasianorum pullities. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Nide, a Term us'd in Falconry, for a Flock of Pheasants. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Nide, a brood; as, a nide of pheasants. 1790 Loiterer No. 57. ⁋5 My Father offered to conduct him to the best Nide of Pheasants on the Manor. 1808 W. Cobbett in A. G. L'Estrange Friendships M. R. Mitford (1882) I. 41 The pheasants are all well, both nids. 1884 W. Carnegie Pract. Game Preserving 4 When quitting the ‘nide’ or ‘nid’, as the nest is technically termed, she instinctively scratches a covering of leaves or grass over it. 1896 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 18 Mother Goose had brought a fine nide of eggs near to hatching on this island. 1976 Lebende Sprachen 21 102/2 There were..nides of cock pheasants and their hens. 1984 G. Gildner Blue like Heavens 138 I think of cutting open a cock's belly and finding the mush of wheat mixed with buckshot of nest and nide and nye. 1997 Independent (Nexis) 19 Oct. 9 It was those birds that inspired Draper to start his own ‘nide’—flock, in more common parlance—of pheasants. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † nidev. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To nest. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > inhabit [verb (intransitive)] > nest nesteOE buildc1275 nidify1656 nestlec1660 nidificate1814 nide1881 1881 R. F. Burton tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad II. 34 Those eyne wherein Dan Cupid aye doth nide. 1892 D. Jordan & J. A. Owen Ann. Fishing Village 21 If a boy were speaking of a bird's nest, he would say more often than not, ‘She nides there.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1679v.1881 |
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