What is the meaning of NEST. Phrases containing NEST
See meanings and uses of NEST!Slangs & AI meanings
Two or more ships berthed together, one outboard of the other.
On the nest is British slang for involved in sexual intercourse.
Chest. I had to punch him in the bird's nest.
Sparrow. Little bow and arrow fell out of the nest. Usually the full slang expression is used.
Bird's nest is London Cockney rhyming slang for an annoying child (pest).Bird's nest is London Cockney rhyming slang for the chest, especially a hairy chest. Bird's nest isBritish slang for a tangle of wire, string, hair or the like.
The place on the ship where the lookout stand is built
Specifically a masthead constructed with sides and sometimes a roof to shelter the lookouts from the weather, generally by whaling vessels, this has become a generic term for what is properly called masthead. The term is derived from the Norse who carried cages of crows or ravens at the masthead. When the ship lost sight of land, they would release one of the birds and then sail in the same direction as the bird toward the nearest land.
Acorn in a bird's nest is British slang for the male genitalia.
Cuckoo's nest is British slang for a mental institution.
to scun a sealing steamer is to direct her course by ovservation fromt eh crow’s nest or barrel at the masthead, where the best leads through the ice are picked out and signalled to the bridge; also, to join nets or linnet together by stitching the edges with twine
Light bread.
A hair-do
to give notice and show which way swimming fish are going. (our “scun.â€) to direct from the barrel or crows-nest of a sealing steamer
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n.
As much or many as will fill a nest.
n.
A young bird which has not abandoned the nest.
imp. & p. p.
of Nestle
a.
Of or relating to the Nestorians.
v. t.
To put into a nest; to form a nest for.
v. t.
To house, as in a nest.
a.
Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.
n.
The doctrines of the nestorian Christians, or of Nestorius.
pl.
of Nestful
v. i.
To make and occupy a nest; to nest.
v. i.
To lie close and snug, as a bird in her nest; to cuddle up; to settle, as in a nest; to harbor; to take shelter.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Nestle
n.
An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in existence. opposed to Eutychian.
v. i.
To move about in one's place, like a bird when shaping the interior of her nest or a young bird getting close to the parent; as, a child nestles.
n.
The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.
n.
A nest; a receptacle.
v. i.
To build and occupy a nest.
n.
Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.
n.
A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs.
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relating to, or resembling, Nestor, the aged warior and counselor mentioned by Homer; hence, wise; experienced; aged; as, Nestorian caution.
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