Definition of nurse

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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..

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Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever..
Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..
Cradle :: Cradle (v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.
Altrices :: Altrices (n. pl.) Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces..
Nurstle :: Nurstle (v. t.) To nurse. See Noursle.
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources..
Attend :: Attend (v. t.) To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve..
Nourish :: Nourish (n.) A nurse.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foste.
Sporozoa :: Sporosac (n.) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia..
Nurser :: Nurser (n.) One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.
Suckler :: Suckle (v. i.) To nurse; to suck.
Ayah :: Ayah (n.) A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid..
Nursed :: Nursed (imp. & p. p.) of Nurs.
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia..
Milkwort :: Milkwort (n.) A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.
Seminary :: Seminary (n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
Noursle :: Noursle (v. t.) To nurse; to rear; to bring up.
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