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wl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young. The birds of the air have nests. Matt. viii. 20.

As much or many as will fill a nest.

To make and occupy a nest; to nest. [Obs.] The kingfisher ... nestles in hollow banks. L'Estrange.

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

A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.

An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect estab…

The doctrines of the nestorian Christians, or of Nestorius.

Causing loss of memory.

To grant amnesty to.

To admonish. [Obs.]

Aiding the memory; as, anamnestic remedies.

Same as Anæsthesia, Anæsthetic.

The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.

Hunting for, or taking, birds' nests or their contents.

Common sensation or general sensibility, as distinguished from the special sensations which are located in, or ascribed to, separate organs, as the eye and ear. It is supposed to depend on the ganglionic system.

A kind of large broad-wheeled wagon, usually covered, for traveling in soft soil and on prairies.

A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.

To disparage. [Obs.]

A dishonoring; disgracing. [Obs.] Gauden.

Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.] Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. Pope. Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women]. Sir T. North.