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Definition of Nestled
1. Adjective. Drawn or pressed close to someone or something for or as if for affection or protection. "Like a baby snuggled in its mother's arms"
Definition of Nestled
1. Verb. (past of nestle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nestled
1. nestle [v] - See also: nestle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nestled
Literary usage of Nestled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shirley: A Tale by Charlotte Brontë (1850)
"asked Moore, as she nestled to, and then uneasily shrank from him. Suddenly,
Caroline was troubled ; her lip quivered. " Poor mamma! ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"She was thrown into fearful convulsions; when they ceased, she nestled down in
the pillows, folded her hands on her breast and said, "There now, ..."
3. The Antiquary (1873)
"... as they were lifting her dead body off the scaffold, was found nestled up
under her royal robes, b» tween the bloody head and trunk of his dead mistress ..."
4. A Young Scholar's Letters: Being a Memoir of Byron Caldwell Smith by Byron Caldwell Smith, Day Otis Kellogg (1897)
"... thought might conceal treasures for my life, that I might be worthy one day
to return to your bosom as pure in body and soul as when I nestled there as ..."
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