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Definition of Renest
1. nest [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: nest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Renest
Literary usage of Renest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecology and Conservation of the Marbled Murrelet by C. John Ralph (1997)
"It is also possible that pairs with failed nests attempt to renest. ... For higher
arctic forms there are probably no opportunities to renest because of a ..."
2. Handbook of Field Methods for Monitoring Landbirds edited by C. John Ralph (1999)
"Most species will renest after a nesting failure, although this varies among ...
Multi- brooded species may renest in as little as 8 days after fledging. ..."
3. Ecosystem Matters: Activity and Resource Guide for Environmental Educators by Mary Adams (1995)
"The problem with these defense mechanisms is that adults may not have enough time
to renest and still have time to put on a sufficient fat load for the ..."
4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1893)
"The bar- renest surfaces are perhaps the most interesting in such weather as
yesterday, where the most terrene colors are seen. The wet earth and sand, ..."
5. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1887)
"I would rather be the bar- renest pasture lying fallow than cursed with the
compliments of kings, than be the sulphurous and accursed desert where Babylon ..."
6. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"The bar- renest surfaces are perhaps the most interesting in such weather as
yesterday, where the most terrene colors are seen. The wet earth and sand, ..."
7. The Writings of Bret Harte by Bret Harte (1896)
"... and hopelessly depressing on all days of the week, the First Presbyterian
Church lifted its blunt steeple from the bar- renest area of the flats, ..."
8. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1894)
"... recalling the poet's paradox that " one finds in Rome only what one brings
there." But everyone, the poorest, finds something ; and the bar- renest ..."