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Webster 1913 Edition


Nestling

Nes′tling

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Noun.
1.
A young bird which has not abandoned the nest.
Piers Plowman.
2.
A nest; a receptacle.
[Obs.]
Bacon.

Nes′tling

,
Adj.
Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.

Webster 1828 Edition


Nestling

NESTLING

,
Noun.
1.
A young bird in the nest, or just taken from the nest.
2.
A nest.

NESTLING

,
Adj.
Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.