Word Finder - nest

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A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

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A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.

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A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.

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A retreat, or place of habitual resort.

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A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.

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That nightclub is a nest of strange people!

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A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.

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I am aspiring to leave the nest.

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A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.

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I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.

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A fortified position for a weapon.

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A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.

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A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.

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An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.

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A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.

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A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.

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(of animals) To build or settle into a nest.

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To settle into a home.

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We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!

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To successively neatly fit inside another.

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I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.

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To place in, or as if in, a nest.

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To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).

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There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.

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To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").

A bird built a nest in the flower box and it has little baby birds!

She makes her nest on the ground.

Every year birds built a nest there.

The tenant of the air, it seemed related to the earth but by an egg hatched some time in the crevice of a crag;--or was its native nest made in the angle of a cloud, woven of the rainbow's trimmings and the sunset sky, and lined with some soft midsummer haze caught up from earth?

Within the nest, the leaves are cut into very minute fragments.

More thunder boomed.  Katie wondered what other kinds of storms the underworld might have.  Would it rain something other than black water?  With her luck, it'd rain bugs, like the beetle nest she skirted.

She glanced down at the bird nest in her hand.

The blue-bird makes her nest in a hollow tree and her eggs are blue.

His gaze went from the nest to Carmen.

Carmen had removed the nest box only a few days ago.

Reaching her hand into the next nest box, a hen pecked it hard.

I was trying to remove that bird's nest.

Honey forms the staple nourishment of many ants, some of the workers seeking nectar from flowers, working it up into honey within their stomachs and regurgitating it so as to feed their comrades within the nest, who, in their turn, pass it on to the grubs.

Could I ask for one last favor before you leave the nest?

Carried to the bee's nest, it undergoes a moult, and becomes a fat-bodied grub, ready to lead a quiet life feeding on the bee's rich food-stores.

The nest is likewise peculiar.

He made a comfortable nest on the floor, propped against several borrowed pillows.

In the nest were some tiny, half-fledged birds.

It was no trouble to pull the nest down after they were gone.

Sladen states that a queen belonging to the virginalis form of Bombus terrestris often invades a nest belonging to the lucorum form, kills the rightful queen, andtakespossession of the nest, getting the lucorum workers to rear her young.

She cleaned the table and then went out to the porch to remove an empty bird nest from the eve.

In both there are species which form no nest or burrow, others which construct a simple silk-lined tunnel in the soil, and others which close the aperture of the burrow with a hinged door; while both share the habit of lining the burrow with silk to prevent the infall of loose sand or mould; and the species which make an open burrow close the aperture with a sheet of silk in the winter during hibernation and open it again in the spring.

Baby Claire helped too, by taking her turn by demanding attention while I spent the time worrying about how I could protect the nest of fragile souls under my care.

The most noted of the Alberta passes are (I) the Crow's Nest Pass, near the southern boundary line, through which a branch of the Canadian Pacific railway runs; (2) the Kicking Horse Pass, through which the main line of the Canadian Pacific railway is built; 40 m.

One of the Brazilian birds whose habits have attracted much interest is the Joao de Barro (Clay John) or oven bird (Furnarius rufus), which builds a house of reddish clay for its nest and attaches it to the branch of a tree, usually in a fork.

The nest is formed among reeds, placed on the ground and lined with grass.

The discovery of large deposits of nickel at Sudbury; of extremely rich gold mines on the head-waters of the Yukon, in a region previously considered well-nigh worthless for human habitation; of extensive areas of gold, copper and silver ores in the mountain regions of British Columbia; of immense coal deposits in the Crow's Nest Pass of the same province and on the prairies; of veins of silver and cobalt of extraordinary richness in northern Ontario - all deeply affected the industrial condition of the country and illustrated the vastness of its undeveloped resources.

The queen may be altogether relieved of the work of the nest as the season advances, so that she can devote all her energies to egg-laying, and the colony grows rapidly.

As though to compensate for the loss of this means of defence, the mandibles are very powerful, and some of the bees construct tubular entrances to the nest with a series of constrictions easy to hold against an enemy.

In 1905 some 415 to 420 species had been found within its borders, and more than half of these were known to nest in the state; 120 had been counted in the winter.

It is situated on the Crow's Nest branch of the Canadian Pacific railway, at the junction of Coal Creek with the Elk river, and owes its importance to the extensive coal mines in its vicinity.

The pie's nest is a wonderfully ingenious structure, placed either in high trees or low bushes, and so massively built that it will stand for years.

The female produces three to five young ones in March or April, and brings them up in a nest formed of grass or other herbage, usually placed in a hollow place in the bank of a river, or under the shelter of the roots of some overhanging tree.

Nest in dense reeds, tangled brambles or tall grass tussocks.

When we were fortunate enough to find a nest I never allowed her to carry the eggs home, making her understand by emphatic signs that she might fall and break them.

There must be room for the actual delivery, as well as for the pups to nest and nurse from the time they are born until it is time for the litter to leave the box.

Its somewhat gloomy aspect, enhanced by the tortuous narrow lanes flanked by gabled houses of the 15th century, has gained for it among countryfolk the sobriquet of the "Witches' nest" (Hexen-Nest).

It builds its nest in March, or early in April, in thick bushes or in ivy-clad trees, and usually rears at least two broods each season.

The nest is a neat structure of coarse grass and moss, mixed with earth, and plastered internally with mud, and here the female lays from four to six eggs of a blue colour speckled with brown.

But on the other side the disorder became greater and greater, many regiments were used up, and Johnston himself killed in vainly attacking on a point of Wallace's line called the Hornet's Nest.

The female makes her nest of moss, dried leaves and grass in the hollow of a tree, but sometimes in a hole among rocks or ruined buildings, and produces several young at a birth, usually from four to six.

Its home is sometimes a den under ground or beneath rocks, but oftener the hollow of a tree, and it is said to take possession of a squirrel's nest, driving off or devouring the rightful proprietor.

But with the return of the warmer season each male selects a territory, which he fiercely defends against all comers, especially against intruders of his own species and sex, and to which he invites all females, until the nest is filled with ova.

This species usually constructs its nest on the bottom, excavating a hollow in which a bed of grass, rootlets or fibres is prepared; walls are then raised, and the whole is roofed over with the like material.

The nest is a beautifully neat structure, often placed at no great height from the ground, but generally so well hidden by the leafy bough on which it is built as not to be easily found, until, the young being hatched, the constant visits of the parents reveal its site.

The nest is placed with little regard to concealment, and is not distinguished by much care in its construction.

The nest is a slight hollow in the ground, wonderfully inconspicuous even when deepened, as is usually the case, by incubation, and the blackspotted olive eggs (four in number) are almost invisible to the careless or untrained eye.

It is the female canary which is almost invariably employed in crossing, as it is difficult to get the females of the allied species to sit on the artificial nest used by breeders.

The work of building the nest, and of incubation, falls chiefly on the female, while the duty of feeding the young rests mainly with the cock bird.

On the 19th of June Hussein appeared before Kasos, a nest of pirates of evil reputation, which he captured and destroyed.