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

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

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

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..

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..

Foment :: Foment (v. t.) To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors..

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

Fondle :: Fondle (v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child..

Nuzzle :: Nuzzle (v. t.) To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.

Ayah :: Ayah (n.) A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid..

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..

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

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.

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..

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

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..

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

Nurseries :: Nurseries (pl. ) of Nurser.

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

Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.

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