*estle*

a. Without harvest; lacking in crops; barren. “Harvestless autumns.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Nestled p. pr. & vb. n. Nestling ] [ AS. nestlian. ] 1. To make and occupy a nest; to nest. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The kingfisher . . . nestles in hollow banks. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lie close and snug, as a bird in her nest; to cuddle up; to settle, as in a nest; to harbor; to take shelter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their purpose was to fortify in some strong place of the wild country, and there nestle till succors came. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The children were nestled all snug in their beds
While visions of sugarplums danced in their heads. Clement Clarke Moore (A Visit From St. Nicholas, (a poem [ 1823 ]) also called The Night Before Christmas). [ PJC ]

3. To move about in one's place, like a bird when shaping the interior of her nest or a young bird getting close to the parent; as, a child nestles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To house, as in a nest. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cherish, as a bird her young. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To subdue by wrestling. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. pestel, OF. pestel, LL. pestellum, L. pistillum, pistillus, a pounder, pestle, fr. pisere, pinsere, to pound, crush, akin to Gr. pti`ssein, Skr. pish. Cf. Pistil. ] 1. An implement for pounding and breaking or braying substances in a mortar; as, to grind with a mortar and pestle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A constable's or bailiff's staff; -- so called from its shape. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The leg and leg bone of an animal, especially of a pig; as, a pestle of pork. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Pestled p. pr. & vb. n. Pestling ] To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a priest. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. restleás. ] 1. Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child. Chaucer. “Restless revolution day by day.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects. “Restless at home , and ever prone to range.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Deprived of rest or sleep. [ 1913 Webster ]

Restless he passed the remnants of the night. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Not affording rest; as, a restless chair. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Restless thrush. (Zool.) See Grinder, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Unquiet; uneasy; disturbed; disquieted; sleepless; agitated; unsettled; roving; wandering. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Rest"less*ly, adv.- Rest"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. trestel, tresteay, F. tréteau; probably from L. transtillum a little crossbeam, dim. of transtrum a crossbeam. Cf. Transom. ] [ Written also tressel. ] 1. A movable frame or support for anything, as scaffolding, consisting of three or four legs secured to a top piece, and forming a sort of stool or horse, used by carpenters, masons, and other workmen; also, a kind of framework of strong posts or piles, and crossbeams, for supporting a bridge, the track of a railway, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The frame of a table. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trestle board, a board used by architects, draughtsmen, and the like, for drawing designs upon; -- so called because commonly supported by trestles. --
Trestle bridge. See under Bridge, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) One of two strong bars of timber, fixed horizontally on the opposite sides of the masthead, to support the crosstrees and the frame of the top; -- generally used in the plural. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + nestle. ] Same as Unnest. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. of vest. ] (Zool.) Any one of several species of actinians belonging to the genus Cerianthus. These animals have a long, smooth body tapering to the base, and two separate circles of tentacles around the mouth. They form a tough, flexible, feltlike tube with a smooth internal lining, in which they dwell, whence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To wrestle with; to seek to throw down as in wrestling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Wrestled p. pr. & vb. n. Wrestling ] [ OE. wrestlen, wrastlen, AS. wr&unr_;stlian, freq. of wr&unr_;stan to wrest; akin to OD. wrastelen to wrestle. See Wrest, v. t. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. [ 1913 Webster ]

To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to struggle; to strive earnestly; to contend. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come, wrestle with thy affections. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

We wrestle not against flesh and blood. Eph. vi. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

Difficulties with which he had himself wrestled. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A struggle between two persons to see which will throw the other down; a bout at wrestling; a wrestling match; a struggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whom in a wrestle the giant catching aloft, with a terrible hug broke three of his ribs. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]