Dictionary entry

Nuzzle

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Nuz″zle (nŭz″z'l), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Nuzzled (?);p. pr. & vb. n.Nuzzling (?).] [See Noursle.]

1. To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.

The people had been nuzzled in idolatry. Milton.

2. [Perh. a corruption of nestle. Cf. Nustle.] To nestle; to house, as in a nest.