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NEST, n.

1. The place or bed formed or used by a bird for incubation or the mansion of her young, until they are able to fly. The word is used also for the bed in which certain insects deposit their eggs.
2. Any place where irrational animals are produced.
3. An abode a place of residence a receptacle of numbers, or the collection itself usually in an sense as a nest of rogues.
4. A warm close place of abode generally in contempt.
5. A number of boxes, cases or the like, inserted in each other.

NEST, To build and occupy a nest.

The king of birds nested with its leaves.

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Entry for 'Nest'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​n/nest.html.
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