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To move about in one's place, like a bird when shaping the interior of her nest or a young bird getting close to the parent; as, a child nestles.

A young bird which has not abandoned the nest. Piers Plowman.

cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral. The world's no neuter; it will wound or save. Young.

A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person. [Obs.]

A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. [Old Cant]

Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional. Young.

alling; one unacquainted or unskilled; one yet in the rudiments; a beginner; a tyro. I am young; a novice in the trade. Dryden.

A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.

hes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.

A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.

Hence: A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel. Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remembered. Shak.

A little or young nymph. [Poetic] "The nymphets sporting there." Drayton.

A young oak. Evelyn.

a representation of that which it signifies; -- used especially in the kindergarten, for young children.

tomary act or service of attention; a form; a practice; a rite; a custom. At dances These young folk kept their observances. Chaucer. Use all the observance of civility. Shak. Some represent to themselves the whole of religion as consisting in a few easy observances. Rogers. O I that wasted time to tend upon her, To co…

gs are laid in a string which the male winds around his legs, and carries about until the young are hatched.

y; irregularity; uncouthness; as, the oddness of dress or shape; the oddness of an event. Young.

Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree. Let not old age disgrace my high desire. Sir P. Sidney. The melancholy news that we grow old. Young.

Producing few young.

ombre calls, his hand and heart are free, And, joined to two, he fails not to make three. Young.