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A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.

A place used by a monotreme, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.

A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.

A retreat, or place of habitual resort.

A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.

A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.

(cards) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.

(military) A fortified position for a weapon.

(computing) A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.

A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.

(geology) 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.

(US) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself. +

(of animals) To build or settle into a nest.

To settle into a home.

To successively neatly fit inside another.

To place in, or as if in, a nest.

To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).

To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").