King James Bible Dictionary

Bird's nest
Numbers 24:21

Birds stir
Deuteronomy 32:11

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.

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

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.

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.

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