Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See nias.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See nias.

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  • noun obsolete An eyas.

Etymologies

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From Old French niais ‘bird from the nest’ (modern French ‘fool’), from Latin nidus ‘nest’.

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Examples

  • Purchasable from the New York Academy of Sciences (visit nyas. org/annals), this densely referenced analysis covers the acute radiation inflicted on both the first-responders (called "liquidators") and on residents nearby, who suffer chronic radioactive sicknesses.

    Countercurrents.org 2010

  • Purchasable from the New York Academy of Sciences (visit nyas. org/annals), this densely referenced analysis covers the acute radiation inflicted on both the first-responders (called "liquidators") and on residents nearby, who suffer chronic radioactive sicknesses.

    Countercurrents.org 2010

  • The New York Academy of Sciences, www. nyas.org has recently published:

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The New York Academy of Sciences, www. nyas.org has recently published:

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The New York Academy of Sciences, www. nyas.org has recently published:

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • Jon Friedman, the media guy at Marketwatch, can drive me batty on occasion and this is one of those occasions: He bitches at news media for reporting at least one public official’s worst-case fear of the death toll in New Orleans and then nya-nyas them for being wrong and then acts of as if, gee, it’s not such a bad story after all.

    Missing the point « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Purchasable from the New York Academy of Sciences (visit nyas. org/annals), this densely referenced analysis covers the acute radiation inflicted on both the first-responders (called

    Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news 2010

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