nuzzle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To push or thrust (the nose or snout, face or muzzle, or head, or an object) against or into something.

   “[T]he Dogge nuſling his noſe vnder the necke of the Deare, the Wolfe glad to let the Lambe lye vpon hym to kéepe him warme, the Lyon ſuffering the Aſſe to caſt hys legge ouer him: preferring one honeſt vnmannerly friende, before a number of croutching picke-thankes.”

2. fiil To rub or touch (someone or something) with the nose, face, etc., or an object.

   “The horse nuzzled its foal’s head gently to wake him up.”

3. fiil Chiefly of an animal: to dig (something, especially food) out of the ground using the nose or snout; to root.
4. fiil Often followed by in or into: to press or push the nose or snout, mouth, face, etc., against or into someone or something; to touch someone or something with the nose or snout, etc.

   “The bird nuzzled up to the wires of the cage.”

5. fiil Chiefly of an animal: to push the nose or snout into the ground to dig for something, especially food; to root, to rootle.

   “The male pigges following the damme, doe commonly ſcatter further abroade than the females doe, and will nouzle and turne vp the ground tenne or twelue paces further off from their dãmes than yͤ females do, […]”

6. fiil Followed by down: to settle or lie comfortably and snugly in a bed, nest, etc.; to nestle.

   “[T]h' abſtruſeſt things / VVhich in the Mind's dark Temper nuzling lie, / By you expoſed are to every eye.”

7. fiil Chiefly followed by up or with: to press affectionately against someone or something; to nestle, to snuggle.

   “[W]ill your reſt / ſeme ſvveeter, if I nuzzle on your breſt?”

8. fiil To come into close contact with someone or something.

   “It was nearly all downhill into Shrewsbury, with two intermediate stops, and a grand sequence of long curves around which Soult nuzzled her way with a quick side-to-side action.”

9. fiil To feel or probe with the fingers.

   “The Professor […] [f]eels thorax and arm, and nuzzles round among muscles as those horrid old women poke their fingers into the salt-meat on the provision-stalls at the Quincy Market.”

10. isim An act of nuzzling (all verb senses).
11. fiil Often followed by up '''or ''with: to nurture or train (oneself or someone) to act a certain way, have certain beliefs, etc.

    “Yf any man therfore vſe the ſcripture to drawe the [thee] from Chriſte and to noſell the [thee] in any thinge ſave in Chriſte / the ſame is a falſe prophete.”

12. fiil To train (a dog or hawk) to attack prey.
13. fiil Chiefly followed by up: to bring up (someone); to foster, to rear; also, to educate (someone); to train.
14. fiil To care for (someone) affectionately; to hold dear (someone); to cherish, to nurse; also, to provide (someone or something) a comfortable and snug place to settle or lie (compare etymology 1, verb etymology 1, verb sense 2.3).

    “For if Birhena could haue held him backe, / From Venus Court where he now nouſled was, / His luſtie limbes had neuer found the lacke / Of manly ſhape: […]”