nīdāmentum, i, n. [nidus]. *
I The materials for a nest : in nervum ille hodie nidamenta congeret, he will scrape together a nest to get himself a drubbing , Plaut. Rud. 3, 6, 51.—*
II Transf., a nest. blattas nidamenta ponere, Arn. 6, 202.