Definify.com
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.
Definition 2024
Nestling
Nestling
See also: nestling
German
Noun
Nestling m (genitive Nestlings, plural Nestlinge)
Declension
nestling
nestling
See also: Nestling
English
Noun
nestling (plural nestlings)
- A small bird that is still confined to the nest.
- (obsolete) A nest; a receptacle.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Translations
small bird
Etymology 2
Verb
nestling
- present participle of nestle
Noun
nestling (plural nestlings)
- 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 […]
- 1871, Kate Neely Hill Festetits, Actions speak louder than words