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▪ I. ˈnuzzle, n. rare.
[f. next.]
An act of nuzzling; a rub with the nose.
a1890Mind in Nature I. 142 (Cent.), Horses, cows, deer, and dogs even, nuzzle each other; but then a nuzzle, being performed with the nose, is not a kiss.
▪ II. nuzzle, v.1|ˈnʌz(ə)l|
Forms: α. 5 nosele, 6 nosyll, 6, 8 nosle, 9 nozzle. β. 6–7 nousle. γ. 6–7 nusle, 7–8 nussle (6 nuszle), 7 nuzzel, 7–8 nuzle, 6– nuzzle.
[f. nose n. + -le 3; perh. originally suggested by the adv. noseling, but cf. Du. neuzelen (Kilian neuselen), G. nus(s)eln, nüs(s)eln, nös(s)eln, Sw. dial. nössla to poke with the nose, to snuffle, to speak through the nose. For the variation in the forms cf. next.]
I. intr.
†1. To bring the nose towards the ground; to grovel. Obs. rare.
c1425St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia VIII. 109/2 Sche noseles downe forwarde and wonderly crokes her body.
2. To burrow or dig with the nose; to thrust the nose into the ground or anything lying on it.
1530Palsgr. 645/1, I nosyll, as a swyne dothe in the yerth with her groyne, je fouille du museau. 1575Turberv. Venerie 156 The male pigges..will nouzle and turne up the grounde tenne or twelve paces further of..than the females do. 1595Spenser Col. Clout 763 In pleasures wastefull well..like moldwarps nousling still they lurke. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme vii. xxviii. 854 The wilde bore..willingly followeth one furrowe, nusling all along the ridge vntill he come to the ende of it. 1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman d' Alf. ii. 51 This Bore one of the Groomes found Nuzzling in the litter,..turning it all topsie-turvy. 1707tr. Wks. C'tess D'Anois (1715) 440 She trotted away grunting and nuzling with her Snout. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 347 It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth. 1814Scott Wav. lxiv, Davie all this while lay with his nose almost in the fire, nuzzling among the ashes. 1866J. B. Rose tr. Ovid's Met. 61 Mingling with steers and nuzzling in the grass. 1889T. Hardy Mayor Casterbr. v, Like sows nuzzling for acorns.
b. In fig. use, with along.
1713Arbuthnot John Bull ii[i]. vii, Sir Roger shook his Ears, and nuzled along, well-satisfied within himself that he was doing a charitable Work.
3. To poke or push with the nose in or into something. Also fig.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 1115 And nousling in his flanke the louing swine Sheath'd vnaware the tuske in his soft groine. 1682N. O. Boileau's Lutrin iv. 305 A heavy Abbey Lubber! Whose Head was always nuzzling in the Cubber'd! 1750S. Jenyns Mod. Fine Lady Wks. 1790 I. 73 Th' embroider'd colonel flatters with a sneer, And the cropt ensign nuzzles in her ear. 1812W. Tennant Anster F. ii. viii, The bev'rage wherein fiddlers like to nuzzle. 1847Youatt Horse vii. 150 If a pail of good gruel is placed within his reach, how will he nuzzle in it. 1899Pall Mall Mag. Feb. 262 ‘Hut, you beast!’ he added,..when the mare nuzzled into his neck.
b. To keep the nose pressing at or about, to press or rub the nose against, something.
With against the sense approximates to 4 b.
1603[see nudgel v.]. 1657G. Thornley Daphnis & Chloe 125 The Lambs riggle and nussle at their dugs. 1726Swift Gulliver iv. ii, Carrying them on their Backs, nuzzling with their Face against the Mother's Shoulders. 1855Stephens Bk. Farm (ed. 2) I. 654/1 Every pig takes its own place, and nuzzles at the udder with the teat held in the mouth. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! xviii, [The sharks] are nuzzling already at my toes! 1892Kipling Barrack-room Ballads, East & West 65 The red mare ran to the Colonel's son, and nuzzled against his breast.
transf.1894R. Le Gallienne Prose Fancies 188, I could see the boat nuzzling up against the pier.
c. Of dogs: To snuff or poke with the nose.
1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life ii. xix, A large bulldog..who keeps up a stifled growl with his muzzle nuzzling about your calf. 1834Sir H. Taylor Artevelde ii. iv. iv, Sanxere Came nuzzling like a dog to find some flesh Whereon to fix. 1879Browning Ivan Ivanovitch 183 Nuzzling now with snout, Now ripping, tooth and claw.
d. To poke with the fingers. rare.
1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life xii. xxvii, The dull..sound..in your ears..which all your tweaking, nuzzling, and rummaging at them, serves only to increase. 1860O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. viii, [The Professor] feels thorax and arm, and nuzzles round among muscles as those horrid old women poke their fingers into the salt-meat on the provision-stalls.
4. To nestle, to lie snug in bed, etc.
1601Weever Mirr. Mart. B iij b, Twixt the sheete and pillow I nuzled in, joyn'd knees and chin together. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. viii. 217 At Cock-crowing he takes his bed, and there nuzzles till Hesperus cramps him by the toes. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne III. 450 Was not this to nustle and settle himself to sleep at greater ease? 1878Jefferies Gamekeeper at H. 2 The ferret is a shivery creature, and likes nothing so well as to nozzle down in a coat-pocket with a little hay.
fig.1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 14 The Lord saw cowldnes and backwardnes in religion, by nuszling to depely in the world. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche xx. ccx, Th' abstrusest things Which in the Mind's dark Temper nuzling lie, By you exposed are to every eye. a1658Cleveland The Times 48 Wks. (1687) 240 Thus Tyranny's a stately Palace, where Ambition sweats to climb and nustle there.
b. To nestle on or close to some part of a person. Also refl.
1611A. Stafford Niobe dissolv'd 199 [Wisdom] nuzzleth her selfe in his bosom, cherisheth his soule. 1637Heywood Pleas. Dial. v. Wks. 1874 VI. 201 Will your rest Seeme sweeter, if I nuzzle on your brest? a1652Brome Novella iii. i, To Kisse the hand,.. and then embrace, Then nuzzle in the Elizium of your bosome! 17..Henley Mirope in Galt Rothelan (1824) iii. iv, That artless homage, Which the fond infant to his mother paid, Smiling and nuzzling, hanging to her bosom. 1752F. Coventry Pompey the Little (ed. 3) 135 In this agreeable situation nuzzling behind the back of a lousy drab. a1849H. Coleridge Poems (1850) II. 270 Free to nuzzle and to nest In the sweet valley of her breast. 1894Hall Caine Manxman 14 Pete nuzzled up to Philip's side.
c. To lie, or otherwise associate, close together, or with another. Also fig.
1708Brit. Apollo No. 104. 3/1 He was nuzzled together with a Doxy. 1719D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 322 No Pigs in a Stye..E'er nussled so close, Or more amourous together. 1742Jarvis Don Quix. i. iv. xlvi, If she were so, she would not be nuzzling at every turn and in every corner with a certain person in the company. 1883Sat. Review 15 Dec. 752 The theory which bids the greatest of all kingdoms huddle and nuzzle with the trumpery republics of yesterday.
II. trans.
5. a. To root up with the nose or snout; to push aside with the nose. rare.
1613Answ. Uncasing of Machiavel G j b, Swine eats the flowres, then nusles vp the roote. 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. viii. 1105 Gods herbs of grace To nouzle up; his Vineyard to deface. 1764Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 87/2 The sheep industriously nosled it aside to bite a blade.
b. To touch or rub with the nose.
1812W. Tennant Anster F. iii. xxxvii, Nuzzling the nasty ground obsequiously. 1883Longman's Mag. Dec. 200 The vicious animal..began to ‘nuzzle’ me with his nose and prehensile upper lip. 1891Kipling Light that Failed (1900) 16 Twenty whale-boats were nuzzling a sand-bank.
6. To thrust in (the nose or head).
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 59 The Dogge nusling his nose vnder the necke of the Deare. 1683Phil. Trans. XIII. 133 It nuzzles its head so deep in the coats of the intestines. 1860All Year Round No. 37. 258 Some of the wretches were nuzzling their gory heads in the scooped-out stomach. 1892Symonds Life in Swiss Highl. vi. 132 Six stalwart horses..nuzzling their noses to the brimful stalls.
7. ‘To put a ring into the nose, as of a hog’ (Ogilvie, 1850).
Hence ˈnuzzling ppl. a.
1596Spenser F.Q. iv. xi. 32 Mole, that like a nousling Mole doth make His way still under ground, till Thamis he overtake.
▪ III. nuzzle, v.2 Now rare.|ˈnʌz(ə)l|
Forms: α. 6 nosyll, -el (6–7 -ell), nossel, noz(z)el, nozle. β. 6 nowsel, nousel(l, 6–7 nousle, nouzle, nouzel(l. γ. 6 noosell (6–7 -el), noozel, noozle. δ. 6 nusell, 6–7 nussel, nus(s)le. ε. 6–7 nuz(z)el, -ell, nuzle, 6– nuzzle.
[Of obscure origin. The identity of the forms with those of the prec. verb make it possible that this also is f. nose n., but the connexion of sense is not clear. In sense 2 the word had great vogue from about 1530 to 1650.]
†1. trans. To accustom (a dog or hawk) to attack other animals or birds. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 645/1, I nosyll a yonge thing, I bolden it fyrst to do, or enterprise a thynge, where afore it wanteth boldnesse, Je apprime. I have nosylled my yonge dogge to daye at a beare, he is made for ever. 1575Turberv. Faulconrie 126 If you woulde nousel or enter a haggarde, then do not enter hir or sette hir in bloude upon a yong praye or inure hir thereto. 1618Latham Falconry (1633) 96 Let her kill some two or three more..; it will so nuzzell her, as that shee wil not after misse the wilde Rooke or any other thing. 1688Holme Armoury ii. xi. 239/2 Nowsell, to entize or inure the Hawk to love to fly at her Prey.
†2. To train, educate, nurture (a person) in some opinion, habit, etc. Freq. with up. Obs.
α1519W. Horman Vulg. 86 It were more a vauntage..that yonge childrens wyttis were other wyse sette a warke than nossel them in suche errour. 1545Brinklow Compl. 60 Thus for lukers sake the greasy canonistes nosel the peple in idolatory. a1600Hooker Answ. Travers' Suppl. §26, I take no ioy in striuing, I haue not beene nozled or trayned vp in it.
β1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 587/1 Some be so sore nowseled in the false heresies,..yt finally thei die therin. 1579J. Stubbes Gaping Gulf D j, Her father will nousell her in hys own religion. 1612T. James Corrupt. Scripture iv. 98 To humor their Nouices, and nousle them vp in this fond conceit. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. vii. 374 The infirmities of people, long nouzled in ignorance and superstition, and incapable of a sudden..alteration.
γc1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 214 The Danes..weare all readie nooseled in the sweetenesse of the soyle. 1591Savile Tacitus, Hist. iv. lxxii. 225 To noosell his souldiers in licentiousness and cruelty. 1606J. Carpenter Solomon's Solace xxviii. 118 The man which hath beene long nooseled vp in vices, will..onely with much adoe leaue them.
δ1553Bale Vocacyon in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 337 Thus were the people nusled vp from their yowth, in calling vpon dead men, and ymages. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. i. (1879) 54 Thei must needs be a nice and curious people who are thus nusseled up in such daintie attyre. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. iii. (1682) 202 Natural Indians, nusled in Paganism. 1686W. de Britaine Hum. Prud. iii. 12 The ends of the Common People, if nusled up in Factious Liberty, are much different from the Designs of Soveraign Princes.
ε1587Holinshed Chron. III. 1225/2 Being an English⁓man by birth, and from his infancie..nuzled in papistrie. 1598Barret Theor. Warres v. i. 169 One that had bene nuzled vp in warre euen from a child. 1642J. Ball Answ. to Can ii. 18 The ordaining of ignorant ministers..the meanes to nuzzle people in ignorance. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 213 The people may no longer be nuzzled up in the expectation.
†b. refl. (Const. as prec.) Obs.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John xi. 79 Wherein we haue long tyme nusseled our selues. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 88/1 He that will cherishe and nousell vp him selfe in wickednesse. 1607Hieron Wks. I. 80 The diuell helping them forward with many shifts to nouzell themselues in ignorance. 1642Rogers Naaman 49 Doubtlesse he meanes they shall nuzzle up themselves in a dead senselesse estate. Ibid. 140 That they might nouzle up themselves the more unsuspectedly in their secret uncleannesse.
†c. With other constructions (esp. with). Obs.
1530Tindale Pract. Prelates H ij, His mynde was to..kepe him without a wife that..he might haue bene noselled and entangled with hores. 1548Patten Exped. Scot. c vij b, Nooseld of my nurce neuer too be spare of spech. a1591H. Smith Serm. (1637) 228 They are so nousled to the world and acquainted with sinne. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. i. i. ii. (1651) 655 Possessed with blinde zeal, and nusled with superstition. 1689Hickeringill Modest Inquiries ii. 11 Bigotted and Nuzled to maintain Priest-Craft. 1692Wagstaffe Vindicæ Carol. x. 74 The London and Westminster Pulpits..nuzzled the People into a resisting the King.
†3. To bring up, rear, train, educate. Obs.
1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. To Rdr., Yet haue I alwaies been noseled vp by a certaine ambition and vainglorie. 1568Skinner tr. Montanus' Inquisit. 82 b, So that hauing such store both of bookes and maisters to instruct them, they began to nosell their whole couent. 1600Holland Livy iii. lii. 123 To flesh the Commons, and to nuzzle them up, and acquaint them with exercising crueltie upon the Nobles. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 150 What Saint is she, That..Nusles my damned Atheist, makes him curse Nature and fortune? 1645Procl. conc. Bk. Com. Pr. 5 The Common-Prayer was a meanes to nuzzle up a non-preaching and ignorant Ministry.
†b. To impose upon, deceive. Obs. rare.
c1680Hickeringill Whiggism i. Wks. 1716 I. 23 Can a few Renegadoes, or Papists think to nuzzle the most glorious Isle and City of the Universe? 1705― Priest-cr. iv. (1721) 205 Therefore you are a Pack of nonsensical Bigots, to be nuzled so easily by Priest-craft.
4. To nurse, to cherish fondly; to provide with a snug place of rest (cf. nuzzle v.1 4).
1581Mulcaster Positions vi. (1887) 47 All those offices, wherunto our bodie serueth naturally,..must be cherished and nusled. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. Prol., Being hugged in the armes, And nuzzled twixt the breastes of happinesse. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass iv. 46 We nusle Serpents in our own bosom..till they sting us to death. 1652Crashaw Mary Magdalene Wks. (1904) 260 The deaw no more will sleep Nuzzel'd in the lilly's neck.
1854Fraser's Mag. XLIX. 212 As thirsty bees that sup Nuzzled within a noonday lily's cup. 1891Hall Caine Scapegoat xi, Why had he been..fondling and nuzzling and coddling them [= fancies]?
Hence ˈnuzzled ppl. a.; ˈnuzzling vbl. n.; also † ˈnuzzling n., nursling.
1586Leicester Corresp. (Camden) 338 The count Morrice was there..and young Mr. Hatton, for his first nuselinge. 1593Bacchus Bountie in Harl. Misc. (1809) II. 264 Fragrantlie fuming vp..into the nosetrills of all his nosled nouises. 1638Drummond of Hawthornden Irene Wks. (1711) 164 These few Miles of Ground, which bred and intertain'd thy Nuslings young. |