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. Shak. He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud. Arbuthnot.
2. To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down. Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along. Arbuthnot.
3. Etym: [Cf. Nuzzle, v. t., 2.]
Defn: To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.
4. To loiter; to idle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
NY
Ny. Etym: [Contr. fr. ne I.]
Defn: Not I; nor I. [Obs.]
NY; NYE
Ny, Nye, a. & adv.
Defn: Nigh. [Obs.] Chaucer.
NYAS
Ny"as, n.