Category:Nuzzle

Nuz"zle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nuzzied;p. pr. & vb. n. Nuzzling.] Etym: [see noursle.]

1. To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up. [obs.] The people had been nuzzled in idolatry. Milton.

2. Etym: [perh. a corruption of nestle. Cf. Nustle.]

Defn: to nestle; to house, as in a nest.

Nuzzle Nuz"zle, v. i. Etym: [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. Shak. 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. Etym: [cf. Nuzzle, v. t., 2.]

Defn: to hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.

4. To loiter; to idle. [prov. Eng.] Halliwell.