Definition of nurse

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

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Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.
Dry Nurse :: Dry nurse () A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it..
Redia :: Redia (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix..
Nourish :: Nourish (n.) A nurse.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen..
Suckler :: Suckle (v. i.) To nurse; to suck.
Norice :: Norice (n.) Nurse.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where nursing is carried o.
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..
Drynurse :: Drynurse (v. t.) To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.
Nursepond :: Nursepond (n.) A pond where fish are fed.
Tender :: Tender (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon..
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..
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..
Nursed :: Nursed (imp. & p. p.) of Nurs.
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..
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