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  • noun Plural form of nest.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nest.

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Examples

  • Every proposal to avoid soiling our nests is going to be the end of the world, and they never learn, no matter how many times their pessimism is proven wrong. joe from Lowell Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Persistence of Carbon Tax Advocates 2009

  • Must be differentiated from Schools which may be independent and contain nests of reactionary hate mongering education not limited to Nazi Germnay

    Minor Familar`s Dictionary Newmania 2008

  • - Chickens prefer to lay eggs in nests that already have eggs.

    Archive 2007-12-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • - Chickens prefer to lay eggs in nests that already have eggs.

    Holiday Ponderables Heather McDougal 2007

  • Accordingly he shouted to his eunuchs and women an order to serve food, and they set before them a tray containing birds of every king that walk and fly and in nests increase and multiply, such as sand-grouse and quails and pigeon-poults and lambs and fatted geese and fried poultry and other dishes of all sorts and colours.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • You are referring to Parque Juarez and, unfortunately in some people's minds, the city is removing the bird nests from the trees so that a stroll in the park on Sunday does not need head protection from droppings from above.

    Gardening in San Miguel 2005

  • They had no beds, but slept in nests of straw, each sex in common with the other, they having no belief in or respect for the marriage ceremony.

    Living in Dryden: December 2003 Archives 2003

  • They had no beds, but slept in nests of straw, each sex in common with the other, they having no belief in or respect for the marriage ceremony.

    Living in Dryden: Willow Glen 2003

  • Such differences depend most probably on the fact that a greater number of slaves occur in Swiss than in English nests, and they may therefore be employed in a wider range of duties on the Continent than at home.

    A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

  • "built their nests" in the tree: the Greek word has no such meaning; the word merely means "to settle or rest upon" anything for a longer or shorter time; nor is there any occasion to suppose that the expression "fowls of the air" denotes any other than the smaller insessorial kinds -- linnets, finches, etc.

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

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