nidorous (ni dor us)

[Sometimes nidrous; degree of lineal descent. Holland, tr. of Pliny, i. 162. =F. nidoreux = Pg. It. nidoroso, L. nidulan (t-) s , ppr. Who meets us here? my niece Plantage net, Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Gloucester. Shak., Rich. III., iv. 1. 1. 2. The daughter of one's brother or sister. I scarce did know you, uncle: there lies your niece, Whose breath, indeed, these hands have newly stopp'd. Shak., Othello, v. 2. 201. O by the bright head of my little niece, You were that Psyche, and what are you now? Tennyson, Prince , ii. niece ship (nes's hip), n. relationship of a niece. nidose (nī'dos), a. [Short for nidorose.] Emitting a stench like that of burnt meat, rotten eggs, or other decaying animal matter. nidulant (nid'u-lant), a. [L. nidu of idulari, build a nest: see nidulate, v.] In bot., lying free in a cup-shaped or nest-like body, as the sporangia in the the re receptacle of plants of the genus Nidularia; also, so, lying loose in pulp, like the seeds of true berries. Lindley. Also nidulate. Nidularia (nid-ū-lāʻri-ä), n. [NL. (Tulosne, Same as niello. She was allied to Ham remote niece-ship. [ in another way besides this Southey, Doctor, lxxii. ( Davies.) nieft, n. An obsolete form of neaf . niel (ni-el'), n. and v. [ nielle : see niello .] 1844), 1844), see nide, nidus.] A genus of gasteromycetous fungi, typical of the family Nidulariacea. The peridium is se ile, globose, at first closed, but at length opening with a circular mouth; sporangia numerous; spores minute. Fourteen species are known, growing on wood, some of which are popularly known as fairy - purses. Nidulariaceæ (nid-ū-la-ri-a sē-ē), ē), n. pl. [NL. (Elias Fries, 1822), nidus (nī'dus), n.; pl. nidi (-dī). [L., a nest: see nide, nyl, and nest1.] 1. A nest; specifically, in entom., the nest, case, or cell formed by an insect or a spider for the reception of its eggs.-2. A place or point in a living organism where a germ, whether proper or foreign to the organism, normal or morbid, may find means of development: as, the nidus of the embryo in the womb; the nidus of a parasite in the intestine; the nidus of pus. The poison of small-pox has its nidus in the deep layer of the skin; hence its characteristic eruption. Dr. T. J. Maclagan . 3. Any one of the small collections of ganglion which constitute the deep origins of cranial nerves: usually called nucleus. - Nidus avis. Same as nidus hi rund in is. - Nidus equæ, a mare's-nest. [Humorous.] A singularly fine example of a nidus equæ . W. T. Blanford, Nature, XXXII. 243.