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Definition of nest

"nest" in the noun sense

1. nest

a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young

2. nest

a kind of gun emplacement

"a machine-gun nest"

"a nest of snipers"

3. nest

a cosy or secluded retreat

4. nest

a gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality

"a nest of thieves"

5. nest

furniture pieces made to fit close together

"nest" in the verb sense

1. nest

inhabit a nest, usually after building

"birds are nesting outside my window every Spring"

2. nest

fit together or fit inside

"nested bowls"

3. cuddle, snuggle, nestle, nest, nuzzle, draw close

move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position

"We cuddled against each other to keep warm"

"The children snuggled into their sleeping bags"

4. nest

gather nests

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Quotations for nest

The bird loves her nest. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To feather one's own nest. [ Proverb ]

How well I feathered my nest. [ Rabelais ]

Take a bird from a clean nest. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

He's a hawk of the right nest. [ Proverb ]

Now you have feathered your nest. [ Congreve ]

What mare's nest hast thou found? [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Every bird likes its own nest best. [ Proverb ]

The sparrow builds in the martin's nest. [ Proverb ]

Every bird thinks its own nest beautiful. [ Italian Proverb ]

It is an ill bird that bewrays its own nest. [ Proverb ]

The poor wren,
The most diminutive of birds, will fight,
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

A little bird is content with a little nest. [ Proverb ]

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid,
In every bosom where her nest is made.
Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest,
And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. [ Cowper ]

Little by little the little bird builds its nest. [ Proverb ]

The lapwing cries most when furthest from her nest. [ Proverb ]

You have found a colt's nest, and laugh at the eggs. [ Proverb ]

He that has feathered his nest may fly when he will. [ Proverb ]

Attack not thoughtlessly a wasp's nest, but if you do, stand fast. [ M. Claudius ]

God gives every bird its nest, but does not throw it into the nest. [ Josiah Gilbert Holland (pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) ]

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

More crafty than the cuckoo (who deposits her eggs in another bird's nest). [ Proverb ]

Thou hast betrayed thy secret as a bird betrays her nest, by striving to conceal it. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

No great composition was ever produced but with the same heavenly involuntariness in which a bird builds her nest. [ John Ruskin ]

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. [ J. G. Holland ]

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be! [ Horace Bushnell ]

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nest in Scrabble®

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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nest in Words With Friends™

The word nest is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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Words containing the sequence nest

Words that start with nest (13 words)

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Words with nest in them (114 words)

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Words that end with nest (46 words)

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