Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Obsolete forms of
nuzzle .
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- verb archaic To
nurture ,train ,raise (up) (a person).
Etymologies
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Alteration of nuzzle, after nurse.
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Examples
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Or love or pity or all that sweet notes not his might nursle:
Henry Purcell 1918
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Or love or pity or all that sweet notes not his might nursle:
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866
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