Nested meaning : (of animals) To build or settle into a nest. To settle into a home. To successively neatly fit inside another. To place in, or as if in, a nest. To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on). To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting"). Embedded. Successively fitted one inside another. (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.