a nest - a) the structure made or the place chosen by birds for laying their eggs and sheltering their young; b) the place used by turtles, hornets, fish, etc. for spawning or breeding; c) the silky or fibrous case which the larvae of certain insects spin about themselves for shelter during the pupa stage; a cocoon.

a cozy, hole in the ground with a very narrow entrance where a colony of ants live in.

a small house or box with compartments for nesting pigeons, usu. on a pole; a dove-cote.

a small structure for housing fowls.

a place where domestic or wild bees live together; a natural or artificial hive.

a small house, inadequate to live in.

a recess or hollow in a wall, for keeping things.

a small structure made of usu. waist-high posts in which persons appear before a magistrate or a judge in a court of law stand for giving their statements.

an earthen or metal bowl-type structure to hold burning coals or charcoal, used for cooking; a portable brazier; a charcoal stove.

the (human) body.

the faculty in living beings that thinks, perceives, feels, etc.; the mind.

the bony frame work of a human being or other vertebrate animal; a skeleton.

a hollow made on the surface of a jewellery to set in a gem.

(usu.) a conical structure made of harvested crop before being threshed.

a temporary structure of raw bricks, limestone, etc. for baking; a brick or limestone kiln.

ಗೂಡು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಬರು gūḍu biṭṭu baru (fig.) to come out from seclusion (to mingle with other).

to turn over the possession or control of to someone without cost or exchange; make a gift of.

to hand or pass over into the trust or keeping of someone.

to give (a girl) in marriage to.

to bestow; to give mercifully.

to give the consequence (of an action).

to express (a thought, idea, feeling etc.) in words.

a sound imitating the sound made while biting a hard eatable.

the act or fact of sitting; a sitting.

(dial.) the annual plant Dolichos biflorus of Papilionaceae family.

(dial.) its pea; horse gram.

the quality or condition of being bent; crookedness.

to hit, strike; to beat.

(dial.) the testicles of a tomcat.

to rest on the buttocks or haunches (as in a chair or on a mat, floor, etc.); to sit.

to occupy a place of authority.

the act or an instance of being joined together or associated with.