nest
/nɛst/ verb C2- To build or settle into a nest.
- To settle into a home. · We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
- To successively neatly fit inside another. · I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on). · There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
- To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
He/she/it nests · Past nested · Past participle nested · -ing form nesting
Verb forms
- Base form
- nest
- He/she/it
- nests
- Past
- nested
- Past participle
- nested
- -ing form
- nesting
From the library
THESE nuts, that I keep in the back of the nest
## II NEST EGGS
The brown nest is seated;
“Well, be off, then!” said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest.
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