nuzzle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: nuzzle	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for nuzzle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nuzzle v move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags" Synonym(s): cuddle, snuggle, nestle, nest, nuzzle, draw close rub noses Synonym(s): nuzzle, nose dig out with the snout; "the pig nuzzled the truffle"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Noursle \Nour"sle\, v. t. [Freq., fr. OE. nourse. See {Nurse}.] To nurse; to rear; to bring up. [Obs.] [Written also {nosel}, {nousel}, {nousle}, {nowsle}, {nusle}, {nuzzle}, etc.] She noursled him till years he raught. --Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nuzzle \Nuz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nuzzied};p. pr. & vb. n. {Nuzzling}.] [See {Noursle}.] 1. To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up. [Obs.] The people had been nuzzled in idolatry. --Milton. 2. [Perh. a corruption of nestle. Cf. {Nustle}.] To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nuzzle \Nuz"zle\, v. i. [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. [Cf. {Nuzzle}, v. t., 2.] To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle. 4. To loiter; to idle. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.