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      nest
      noun
      A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
      A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
      A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
      A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
      A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
      A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
      (card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
      (computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
      A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
      A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
      A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
      (geology) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
      (vulgar, slang, now US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
      (military) A fortified position for a weapon.
      A surname from German or Welsh.
      (education) Initialism of native English-speaking teacher.
      verb
      (intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
      (intransitive) To settle into a home.
      (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
      (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
      (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
      (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
      Synonyms for nest
      vespiaryadjnidusnrookerynaerienbroodernhivenlairndennburrown
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