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Webster 1913 Edition

Nuzzle

Nuz′zle

(nŭz′z’l)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Nuzzled
(nŭz′z’ld)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Nuzzling
(nŭz′zlĭng)
.]
[See
Noursle
.]
1.
To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
[Obs.]
The people had been
nuzzled
in idolatry.
Milton.
2.
[Perh. a corruption of
nestle
. Cf.
Nustle
.]
To nestle; to house, as in a nest.

Nuz′zle

(nŭz′z’l)
,
Verb.
I.
[Dim. fr.
nose
. See
Nozzle
.]
1.
To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.
And
nuzzling
in his flank, the loving swine
Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin.
Shakespeare
He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . .
nuzzling
like an eel in the mud.
Arbuthnot.
2.
To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.
Sir Roger shook his ears, and
nuzzled
along.
Arbuthnot.
3.
[Cf.
Nuzzle
,
Verb.
T.
, 2.]
To hide the head, as a child in the mother’s bosom; to nestle.
4.
To loiter; to idle.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.

Webster 1828 Edition

Nuzzle

NUZ'ZLE

, v.t.[qu. from noursle.] To nurse; to foster. [Vulgar.]

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