Nuz"zle (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Nuzzied (?);p. pr. & vb. n.
Nuzzling (?).] [See Noursle.]
1. To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring
up. [Obs.]
The people had been nuzzled in
idolatry.
Milton.
2. [Perh. a corruption of nestle. Cf.
Nustle.] To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
Nuz"zle (?), v. i. [Dim. fr.
nose. See Nozzle.]
1. To work with the nose, like a swine in the
mud.
And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine
Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin.
Shak.
He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . .
nuzzling like an eel in the mud.
Arbuthnot.
2. To go with head poised like a swine, with
nose down.
Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled
along.
Arbuthnot.
3. [Cf. Nuzzle, v. t.,
2.] To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to
nestle.
4. To loiter; to idle. [Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
