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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.
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a cozy, hole in the ground with a very narrow entrance where a colony of ants live in.
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a small house or box with compartments for nesting pigeons, usu. on a pole; a dove-cote.
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a small structure for housing fowls.
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a place where domestic or wild bees live together; a natural or artificial hive.
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a small house, inadequate to live in.
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a recess or hollow in a wall, for keeping things.
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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.
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an earthen or metal bowl-type structure to hold burning coals or charcoal, used for cooking; a portable brazier; a charcoal stove.
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the (human) body.
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the faculty in living beings that thinks, perceives, feels, etc.; the mind.
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the bony frame work of a human being or other vertebrate animal; a skeleton.
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a hollow made on the surface of a jewellery to set in a gem.
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(usu.) a conical structure made of harvested crop before being threshed.
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a temporary structure of raw bricks, limestone, etc. for baking; a brick or limestone kiln.
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ಗೂಡು ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಬರು gūḍu biṭṭu baru (fig.) to come out from seclusion (to mingle with other).