nuzzle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

NUZ'ZLE, verb transitive [qu. from noursle.] To nurse; to foster. [Vulgar.] NUZZLE, verb transitive [qu. from nose or noursle.] To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom. NUZ'ZLE, verb transitive [qu. from noursle or nestle.] To nestle; to house as in a nest. NUZ'ZLE, verb intransitive [qu. from nose.] To go with the nose near the ground, or thrusting the nose into the ground like a swine.
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