Nuzzle /(nŭz"z'l)/

imp. & p. p. Nuzzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Nuzzling

1. To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up. [Obs.]

   The people had been nuzzled in idolatry.

2. To nestle; to house, as in a nest.

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.

   He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud.

2. To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.

   Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along.

3. To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.
4. To loiter; to idle. [Prov. Eng.]