nesting

Verb

nest (third-person singular simple present nests, present participle nesting, simple past and past participle nested)

1. (intransitive) To build or settle into a nest.
2. (intransitive) To settle into a home.
   • We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!
3. (intransitive) To successively neatly fit inside another.
   • I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.
4. (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a nest.
5. (transitive) To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
   • There would be much more room in the attic if you had nested all the empty boxes.
6. (intransitive) To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
   • After the first heavy frost, when acorns were falling, I took a friend into partnership and went nesting.1895, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, (Please provide the book title or journal name)

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