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place where a See also:bird See also:lays its eggs, hatches them out, and shelters them until they are fledged. The word is used by See also:analogy of other animals than birds, See also:insects, &c. It appears in much the same See also:form in See also:Teutonic See also:languages; related to it are Irish nead, and See also:Lat. nidus, whence Fr. nid. It has been referred to the Gr. v6o-See also:roc, return See also:home, but it is now established that it represents a form nizdo- for nisido-, from ni-, down; cf. " nether," and sed-, to sit. See also:Sanskrit has nida. The Lat. nidus has given the scientific See also:term for nest-See also:building, See also:nidification (q.v.).

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