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Nestling

noun

Young bird not yet fledged. Synonym: baby bird.

A young person of either sex. Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster. "They're just kids" , "'tiddler' is a British term for youngster"

Nestle

verb

(past & past part. nestled; pres. part. nestling)

Move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position. Synonyms: cuddle, draw close, nest, nuzzle, snuggle. "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags"

Lie in a sheltered position.

Position comfortably. Synonym: snuggle.

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"Nestling" Quotes from Famous Books

... snow-blindness. They had left the flat prairie behind, and were now in the bluff country which was simply heights and hollows lightly timbered with birch, poplar and saskatoon bushes, with beautiful meadows and small lakes or "sloughs" scattered about everywhere. They passed many pretty homesteads nestling cosily in sheltered nooks; but no smoke rose from their chimneys; they all seemed to have been deserted in a hurry. Their occupants had doubtless fled into Battleford. What if they had been too late to reach that haven ...

— The Rising of the Red Man - A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion • John Mackie

... Pentecost, which brings The Spring, clothed like a bride, When nestling buds unfold their wings, And bishop's-caps have golden rings, Musing upon many things, I ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... dreaming," I muttered. "Somebody ought to pinch me. You found those infernal things nestling among my coats and hose and trousers—and you don't think ...

— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti

... melancholy aspect of the empty streets and closed shutters of this honorable quarter, where the end of the monumental vistas seemed to be curtained with a hazy emanation from the Seine. It was late in the afternoon when Bernard was ushered into Mrs. Vivian's little high-nestling drawing-room, and a patch of sunset tints, faintly red, rested softly upon the gilded wall. Bernard had seen these ladies only in borrowed and provisional abodes; but here was a place where they were really living and which was stamped ...

— Confidence • Henry James

... where the narrow river, after passing many homesteads of great charm nestling amid the greenery of the low shore that fringes the high mountains, turns into Kootenay Lake, the Prince went ashore. Here is a delightful chalet which was once an hotel, but is now a sanatorium for Canadian soldiers. Its position is idyllic. It stands above river and lake, with the ...

— Westward with the Prince of Wales • W. Douglas Newton

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