Nuz"zle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nuzzied (?);p. pr. & vb. n. Nuzzling (?).] [See Noursle.]
1.
To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
[Obs.]
The people had been nuzzled in idolatry.
Milton.
2. [Perh. a corruption of nestle. Cf. Nustle.]
To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
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Nuz"zle (?), v. i. [Dim. fr. nose. See Nozzle.]
1.
To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.
And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine
Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin.
Shak.
He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud.
Arbuthnot.
2.
To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.
Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along.
Arbuthnot.
3. [Cf. Nuzzle, v. t., 2.]
To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.
4.
To loiter; to idle.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
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