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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.

Nes"tle, v. t. To house, as in a
nest.

2. To cherish, as a bird her young.

Nes"tling (?). n. 1.
A young bird which has not abandoned the nest. Piers
Plowman.

2. A nest; a receptacle. [Obs.]
Bacon.

Nes"tling, a. Newly hatched; being
yet in the nest.

Nes"tor (?), n. (Zoöl.)
A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and papua,
allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.

Nes*to"ri*an (?), n. (Eccl.
Hist.) An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of
Constantinople in the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic
for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged
into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it
was improper to call Mary the mother of God though she might
be called the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect
established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, India, and other
Oriental countries, and still in existence.


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