Dry Nurse :: Dry nurse () A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it..

Drynurse :: Drynurse (v. t.) To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast..

Nurse :: Nurse (n.) One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm..

Nurse :: Nurse (n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like..

Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place..

Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia..

Nurse :: Nurse (n.) Either one of the nurse sharks.

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foste.

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant..

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon..

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention..

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources..

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does..

Nursed :: Nursed (imp. & p. p.) of Nurs.

Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.

Nursemaid :: Nursemaid (n.) A girl employed to attend children.

Nursepond :: Nursepond (n.) A pond where fish are fed.

Nurser :: Nurser (n.) One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

Nurseries :: Nurseries (pl. ) of Nurser.

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The act of nursing.

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where nursing is carried o.

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees..

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen..

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.

Nurseryman :: Nurseryman (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc..

Nurserymen :: Nurserymen (pl. ) of Nurseryma.

Wet Nurse :: Wet nurse () A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse..

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