Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nestling.
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- noun One that
nestles
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Examples
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Mother! look at the darling nestler upon your own bosom, and ask yourself how you would have felt in Christine's place.
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The size of the nestler is comic, and its tiny beseeching weakness is compensated perfectly by the happy patronizing look of the mother, who is a sort of high reposing Providence toward it.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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