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[imp. & p. p. NUZZLED; p. pr. & vb. n. NUZZLING.] [From noursle, q. v.] 1. To noursle; to foster; to bring up. [Obs.] The people had been nuzzled in idolatry ever so long before. Milton. 2. [Probably a corruption of nestle, q. v. Cf. NUSTLE.] To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
[From nozzle, nosle, q. v. Cf. supra.]
Sense 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 sometimes charged through an army of lawyers, sword in hand, and sometimes nuzzled like an eel in the mud. Arbuthnot.
Sense 2. To go with the nose thrust out and down, like a swine.
Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along, well satisfied that he was doing a charitable work. Arbuthnot.
The blessed benefit, not there confined, Drops to the third, who nuzzles close behind. Pope.
Sense 3. To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.
Sense 4. To loiter; to idle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.