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Nursling :: Nursling (n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling..

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..

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

Infirmary :: Infirmary (n.) A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated..

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

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

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

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

Suckle :: Suckle (v. t.) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.

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..

Seminary :: Seminary (n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.

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

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..

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.

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

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

Rosery :: Rosery (n.) A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1..

Tender :: Tender (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

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..

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

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