| • | The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs
   and for hatching and rearing her young. | 
											
															| • | Hence: the place in which the eggs of other animals, as
   insects, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which
   young animals are reared. | 
											
															| • | A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a
   retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest,
   frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of
   traitors; a nest of bugs. | 
											
															| • | An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated
   state, within a rock. | 
											
															| • | A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size,
   each put within the one next larger. | 
											
															| • | A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working
   together or collectively. | 
											
															| • | To build and occupy a nest. | 
											
															| • | To put into a nest; to form a nest for. |