Word Finder - nests

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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").

Some species build their nests in trees - great globular masses sometimes three feet in diameter, supported on the larger branches, and connected with the ground by covered passages on the outside of the tree.

Witches-brooms are the tufted bunches of twigs found on silver firs, birches and other trees, and often present resemblances to birds nests or clumps of mistletoe if only seen from a distance.

These driver ants shelter in temporary nests made in FIG.

The tracks along which the ants carry the leaves to their nests are often in part subterranean.

It constructs large ball-like nests of dried leaves, lodged in a fork of the branches of a large tree, and with the opening on one side.

The warmth, shelter and abundant food in the nests, due both to the fresh supplies brought in by the ants and to the large amount of waste matter that accumulates, must prove strongly attractive to the various " guests."

Captain Taylor, however, found their nests as well on low bushes of the same tree in the Bay of Fonseca (Ibis, 1859, pp. 150-152).

The earliest churches were built with cemeteries for the dead; and thus we find the nucleus of the city of Venice, little isolated groups of dwellings each on its separate islet, scattered, as Cassiodorus 1 says, like sea-birds' nests over the face of the waters.

Along one line there was a gradual elaboration of the tube until it culminated, so far as structural complexity is concerned, in the so-called trapdoor nests or burrows of various families; along the other line the tubular retreat either retains its primitive simplicity in association with a new structure, the snare or net, or is entirely superseded by the latter.

Trap-door nests are made by spiders belonging to two widely different groups, namely the Lycosidae or wolf-spiders, to which the true tarantula belongs, and the Mygalomorphae, containing the species which construct the best-known types of this style of burrow.

What in popular usage are spoken of as the instincts of animals, for example, the hunting of prey by foxes and wolves, or the procedure of ants in their nests, are generally joint products of hereditary and acquired factors.

A bird known locally as Hangi, not met elsewhere in Europe, nests at Filfla.

If, as often happens, the water-level sinks, the nests stand out higher.

Food is stored in underground burrows or occasionally in disused bird nests.

Perhaps they are the nests of the chivin.

Nests of this species were found in 1821 by Johana Wilhelm Zetterstedt near Juckasj,rwi in Swedish Lapland, but little was known concerning its nidification until 1855, when John Wolley, after two years' ineffectual search, succeeded in obtaining near the Finnish village Muonioniska, on the Swedish frontier, well-authenticated specimens with the eggs, both of which are like exaggerated bullfinches'.

In the Spanish plains, however, the young are often produced in nests built in trees, or among tall bamboos in FIG.

The true love-birds (Agapornis) may also be said to build nests, for they line their nest-hole with strips of pliant bark.

They are of small size and live entirely on the ground, making nests of dried leaves, grass and sticks in holiow places and forming burrows in which they pass a great part of the day.

A large number of beetles inhabit the deep limestone caves of Europe and North America, while many genera and some whole families are at home nowhere but in ants' nests.

Many Staphylinidae are constant inmates of ants' nests.

The nests of different kinds of ants are constructed in very different situations; many species (Lasius, for example) make underground nests; galleries and chambers being hollowed out in the soil, and opening by small holes on the surface, or protected above by a large stone.

The colonies of Aphaenogaster occupy nests extending over an area of fifty to a hundred square yards several feet below the surface of the ground.

This consideration leads us to one of the most remarkable and fascinating features of 'ant-communities - the presence in the nests of insects and other small arthropods, which are tended and cared for by the ants as their " guests," rendering to the ants in return the sweet food which they desire.

Lubbock (Lord Avebury) states that the common British yellow ants (Lasius flavus) collect flocks of root-feeding aphids in their underground nests, protect them, build earthen shelters over them, and take the greatest care of their eggs.

Wasmann, who has compiled a list of nearly 1 50o species of insects, arachnids and crustaceans, inhabiting ants' nests.

A considerable trade is carried on in the export of horses, buffaloes, goats, dinding (dried flesh), skins, birds' nests, wax, rice, katyang, sappanwood, &c. Sumbawa entered into treaty relations with the Dutch East India Company in 1674.

Galena occurs in veins in the Cambrian clay-slate, accompanied by copper and iron pyrites, zinc-blende, quartz, calcspar, iron-spar, &c.; also in beds or nests within sandstones and rudimentary limestones, and in a great many other geological formations.

Scorpions do not possess spinning organs nor form either snares or nests, so far as is known.

Spiders form at least two kinds of constructions - snares for the capture of prey and nests for the preservation of the young.

For an account of the courtship and dancing of spiders, of their webs and floating lines, the reader is referred to the works of M'Cook (30) and the Peckhams (31), whilst an excellent account of the nests of trap-door spiders is given by Moggridge (32).

The eggs are laid in the nests of various bees and wasps, the chrysid larva living as a " cuckoo " parasite.

The Trigonalidae, a small family whose larvae are parasitic in wasps' nests, also probably belong here.

In two of the families - the Mutillidae and Thynnidae - the females are wingless and the larvae live as parasites in the larvae of other insects; the female Mutilla enters humble-bees' nests and lays her eggs in the bee-grubs.

The chief exports consist of rice, rattans, torches, dried fish, areca-nuts, sesamum seeds, molasses, sea-slugs, edible birds' nests and tin.

Before they are confined to their nests, it is wonderful with what devotion the females are attended by their gay followers, who seem to be each trying to be more attentive than the rest.

A peculiar local industry is the manufacture of so-called "petrified" birds' nests, plants, and other objects.

Deep to these is the ovarian stroma, composed of fibrous tissue, and embedded in it are numerous nests of epithelial cells, the Graafian follicles, in various stages of development.

They are about the size of a pigeon, with orange-coloured plumage, a pronounced crest, and orange-red flesh, and build their nests on rock.

These caves are frequented by a species of night-hawk, called guacharo, which nests in the recesses of the rocks.

The webs and nests, &c., formed by spiders are also of silk.

Wolley in June 1853, when he found several of its nests near Muonioniska in Lapland.

Some cuckoos are singular for their habit of using the nests of smaller birds to lay their eggs in, so that the young may be reared by foster-parents; and it has been suggested that the object of the likeness exhibited to the hawk is to enable the cock cuckoo either to frighten the small birds away from their nests or to lure them in pursuit of him, while the hen bird quietly and without molestation disposes of her egg.

But it has been ascertained that the species of Volucella which behave in this manner also visit for a like purpose the nests of wasps, which they do not resemble.

Preserve the ripening fruits on the wall and other trees from insects, and destroy wasp nests.

By the 15th century in many cases they had utterly sunk in reputation, their obligation to nurse the sick was quite neglected, and they had, rightly or wrongly, acquired the reputation of being mere nests of beggars and women of ill fame.

It is said also to dig up the nests of wasps in order to eat the larvae, as the ratel - a closely allied South African form - is said to rob the bees of their honey.

It is probable that what he had suffered during his first year in London had often reminded him of some parts of the satire in which Juvenal had described the misery and degradation of a needy man of letters, lodged among the pigeons' nests in the tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome.

These floral products which form the food of bees and of their larvae, are in most cases collected and stored by the industrious insects; but some genera of bees act as inquilines or "cuckoo-parasites," laying their eggs in the nests of other bees, so that their larvae may feed at the expense of the rightful owners of the nest.

Fabre has found that in the nests of some species of Osmia the young bee developed in the first-formed cell, if (as often happens) she emerges from her cocoon before the inmates of the later cells, will try to work her way round these or to bite a lateral hole through the bramble shoot; should she fail to do this, she will wait for the emergence of her sisters and not make her escape at the price of injury to them.