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/nˈɛsəl/ /nˈɛslˈi/ Listen

verb

Nestle v. t.

1.

To house, as in a nest.

2.

To cherish, as a bird her young.

Nestle v. i. (past & past part. nestled; pres. part. nestling)

1.

To make and occupy a nest; to nest. (Obs.) "The kingfisher... nestles in hollow banks."

2.

To lie close and snug, as a bird in her nest; to cuddle up; to settle, as in a nest; to harbor; to take shelter. "Their purpose was to fortify in some strong place of the wild country, and there nestle till succors came." "The children were nestled all snug in their beds While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads."

3.

To move about in one's place, like a bird when shaping the interior of her nest or a young bird getting close to the parent; as, a child nestles.

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Etymology of 'Nestle'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nestle" Quotes from Famous Books

... wrecked rogues, broken bankers, and bankrupt speculators. The fields will be tilled, and country villages, almost hidden by trees and vines and flowers, filled with industrious and happy people, will nestle in every vale and gleam like gems ...

— The Ghosts - And Other Lectures • Robert G. Ingersoll

... her waist, and drew her down beside me to a seat on a big Chesterfield drawn before one of the windows. She resisted faintly at first, but presently I heard her give a sigh of content, and felt her nestle towards ...

— The Motor Pirate • George Sidney Paternoster

... grow, and, gradually as a building becomes more ruined, ivy and other parasitical plants cover it. Even the animal creation lends its aid in the process of destruction when man no longer labours for the conservation of his works. The fox burrows amongst ruins, bats and birds nestle in the cavities in walls, the snake and the lizard likewise make them their habitation. Insects act upon a smaller scale, but by their united energies sometimes produce great effect; the ant, by establishing her colony and forming ...

— Consolations in Travel - or, the Last Days of a Philosopher • Humphrey Davy

... this will seem overcharged. We too have walked through Monmouth Street; but with little feeling of 'Devotion': probably in part because the contemplative process is so fatally broken in upon by the brood of money-changers who nestle in that Church, and importune the worshipper with merely secular proposals. Whereas Teufelsdroeckh might be in that happy middle state, which leaves to the Clothes-broker no hope either of sale or of ...

— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle

... hollow of the arm or neck, the fumbling little hands; then the gradual gain in size and strength, till now she held that eager bounding little body, almost strong enough to get away from her—but not wanting to. He still loved to nestle up to "Muzz," and was but newly and partially won by ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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