Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the nidus hiruudini s (which see, under
nidus ).
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Examples
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Christendom, or Pagandom: the _cuisine_ of France, Spain, and Italy; the roast beef of Old England, as the pork and beans of the New; the _gumbo_ of Guinea, and _sauerkraut_ of Germany, side by side with the swallow's-nest soup and sea-slugs of China.
The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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At Clare I had swallow's-nest lodgings at the top of the seventeenth-century Old Court-the first time I had ever had a place of my own.
Commonweal Magazine 2009
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At Clare I had swallow's-nest lodgings at the top of the seventeenth-century Old Court-the first time I had ever had a place of my own.
Commonweal Magazine 2009
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At Clare I had swallow's-nest lodgings at the top of the seventeenth-century Old Court-the first time I had ever had a place of my own.
Commonweal Magazine 2009
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