nide (n?d)n. A nest or brood of pheasants.[Latin n?dus, nest; see sed- in Indo-European roots.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.nide (na?d) n (Zoology) another word for nye[C17: from Latin n?dus nest]Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014Nide a nest or brood of young birds. See also bike.Examples: nide of eggs, 1896; of geese; of pheasants, 1679.Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.