Nest - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nest Page: 2Nidulate
To make a nest as a bird...
Nidulant
Nestling as a bird in its nest...
mares nest
A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax something grossly absurd...
Nidulation
The time of remaining in the nest...
VerbarNidus
A nest a repository for the eggs of birds insects etc a breeding place esp the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed...
Penduline
A European titmouse Parus pendulinus syn AEliggithalus pendulinus It is noted for its elegant pendulous purselike nest made of the down of willow trees and lined with feathers...
Renidification
The act of rebuilding a nest...
Roseworm
The larva of any one of several species of lepidopterous insects which feed upon the leaves buds or blossoms of the rose especially Cacaeligcia rosaceana which rolls up the leaves for a nest and devours both the leaves and buds...
A Erie
A Erie [fr. 'ria accipitum, Lat.], an airy, or nest of goshawks, Spelm. Ghos....
Alsatia
Alsatia, formerly a cant name for Whitefriars, a district in London between the Thames and Fleet Street, and adjoining the Temple, which, possessing certain privileges of sanctuary, became for that reason a nest of those mischievous characters who were generally obnoxious to the law; see Scott's Fortunes of Nigel, ch. 17. These privileges were derived from its having been an establishment of the Carmelites, or White Friars, founded in 1241. In the time of the Reformation the place retained its immunities as a sanctuary, and James I. confirmed and added to them by a charter in 1608, but all privileges of sanctuary were shortly afterwards abolished in 1624 by 21 Jac. 1, c. 28....
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