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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Nest

The Bible

Bible Usage:

Dictionaries:

  • Included in Eastons: No
  • Included in Hitchcocks: No
  • Included in Naves: Yes
  • Included in Smiths: No
  • Included in Websters: Yes
  • Included in Strongs: Yes
  • Included in Thayers: No
  • Included in BDB: Yes

Strongs Concordance:

 

Naves Topical Index
Nest

Bird's nest
Numbers 24:21

Birds stir
Deuteronomy 32:11


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Nest

NEST, noun

1. The place or bed formed or used by a bird for incubation or the mansion of her young, until they are able to fly. The word is used also for the bed in which certain insects deposit their eggs.

2. Any place where irrational animals are produced.

3. An abode; a place of residence; a receptacle of numbers, or the collection itself; usually in an ill sense; as a nest of rogues.

4. A warm close place of abode; generally in contempt.

5. A number of boxes, cases or the like, inserted in each other.

NEST, verb intransitive To build and occupy a nest

The king of birds nested with its leaves.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Nestegg

NESTEGG, noun An egg left in the nest to prevent the hen from forsaking it.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Nestle

NESTLE, verb intransitive

1. To settle; to harbor; to lie close and snug, as a bird in her nest.

The king-fisher nestles in hollow banks.

Their purpose was to fortify in some strong place of the wild country, and their nestle till succors came.

2. To move about in ones seat, like a bird when forming her nest; as, a child nestles.

NESTLE, verb transitive

1. To house, as in a nest.

2. To cherish, as a bird her young.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Nestling

NESTLING, noun

1. A young bird in the nest, or just taken from the nest.

2. A nest.

NESTLING, adjective Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.


Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Nestorian

NESTORIAN, noun A follower of Nestorius, a heretic of the fifth century, who taught that Christ was divided into two persons.