nustle

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nustle

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Compare nuzzle and nursle.

verb nustles · nustling · nustled

  1. obsolete To take care of fondly; to cherish; to nurse. And now by means of those worldly Lectures, which he had by my direction so gravely, and effectually read unto me, I became such a Proficient in Mammon's School, as those who long time had been nursed and nustled in it, could not come near me in the Practical part of a Worldling.
  2. To settle oneself comfortably and snugly. Old men, long nustled in corruption, scorn them that would seek reformation.

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