Nesting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for NESTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• (of a bird or other animal) use or build a nest
• fit (an object or objects) inside a larger one
• (of a set of objects) fit inside one another
• (especially in computing and linguistics) place (an object or element) in a lower position in a hierarchy
NOUN:
• the act of making nests
• a structure or place made or chosen by a bird for laying eggs and sheltering its young
• a place where an insect or other animal breeds or shelters
• something in the form of a bowl or layer, used to hold, protect, or support something
• a place filled with undesirable people, activities, or things
• a set of similar objects of graduated sizes, made so that each smaller one fits into the next in size for storage
• a person's snug or secluded retreat
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to build a nest (a structure for holding bird eggs)

Words related to NESTING

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Words that contain NESTING

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How to use NESTING in a sentence

• Mating time and nesting time are the times for murdering birds, because at that season not only is their plumage finest, but the birds are more easily to be found and killed.
• If one happened to arrive a little late in the spring, all the nesting places were occupied.
• The nesting season is chiefly in spring, when all plants begin or renew their growth.
• They sing most persistently from the time they put on their spring coat, until after the nesting season, when they take it off.
• A Citizen of North America from Canada southward, nesting north of the Middle States.
• A Citizen of North America, nesting from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, wintering in the Southern States and beyond.
• A Citizen of North America, nesting in the northern tier of States and northward, and also on high mountains as far south as Georgia.
• A Citizen of the eastern United States to the plains and from Florida to the Great Lakes, nesting wherever found.
• Where there is a good law no wild bird or beast, even those which are suitable and intended for food, may be killed in its nesting or breeding season, or for some time afterward.
• A Citizen of North America east of the plains and north to Canada, nesting from South Carolina northward, and wintering in the Southern States.
• A useful and pleasant neighbor, who likes our society, often nesting in sheds and under porches.
• Pure white all over, with a bunch of many long slender plumes growing between the shoulders, and shorter ones on the head and neck, in the nesting season.
• A Citizen of temperate North America, nesting in the Northern States and wintering in some of the Southern States.
• Two of the birds which Cherrie and Miller procured were of extraordinary nesting habits.
• As these magnificent feathers appear upon the bird only through the mating and nesting season, the cruelty of the act is still more dastardly.
• Derived from Greek Oh, the hawthorn buds came out this week, And robins are nesting down by the creek.
• Overhead whistled the first flight of the wild goose, bound for the nesting grounds.
• Above the calls and the sound of feet on deck came a thin wild chorus which he had learned to associate with the island nesting grounds of thousands of sea-birds.
• It is not a nesting place for destructive birds or vermin.
• The vague mind of the savage woman never sent her to the spider, the nesting bird, and the burrowing squirrel to learn to weave and to build and to store.
• But ye infinite brood of golden eagles nesting ever higher, Wheeling ever higher, the sun-light wooing Of lofty places of Thought, Forgive the blindness of the departed owl.
• We are fortunate in getting a picture of the nest of the Gambel sparrow and two of the nesting white-throated, sparrow.
• I remember mentioning to you the case of Rhynchaea, but its nesting seems unknown.

Similar words containing NEST without suffix ing

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