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Webster 1913 Edition


Nestling

Nes′tling

.
Noun.
1.
A young bird which has not abandoned the nest.
Piers Plowman.
2.
A nest; a receptacle.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

Nes′tling

,
Adj.
Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.

Webster 1828 Edition


Nestling

NESTLING

,
Noun.
1.
A young bird in the nest, or just taken from the nest.
2.
A nest.

NESTLING

,
Adj.
Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.

Definition 2024


Nestling

Nestling

See also: nestling

German

Noun

Nestling m (genitive Nestlings, plural Nestlinge)

  1. nestling

Declension

nestling

nestling

See also: Nestling

English

Noun

nestling (plural nestlings)

  1. A small bird that is still confined to the nest.
  2. (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.
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Translations

Etymology 2

From nestle + -ing.

Verb

nestling

  1. present participle of nestle

Noun

nestling (plural nestlings)

  1. The act of one who nestles.
    • 1871, Kate Neely Hill Festetits, Actions speak louder than words
      It was associated, to them, with vague sweet memories of loving nestlings in mother's arms, of soft warm coddlings before the fire, of slow rocking to and fro in the little, low, flag chair, and gradual droppings off to sleep []