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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Suckler :: Suckle (v. i.) To nurse; to suck.
Upbreed :: Upbreed (v. t.) To rear, or bring up; to nurse..
Noursle :: Noursle (v. t.) To nurse; to rear; to bring up.
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..
Fondle :: Fondle (v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child..
Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.
Cr/che :: Cr/che (n.) A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work..
Ayah :: Ayah (n.) A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid..
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon..
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..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees..
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen..
Fostress :: Fostress (n.) A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources..
Rosery :: Rosery (n.) A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1..
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..
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..
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia..
Patient :: Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
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