Definition of nurse

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Nurse (n.) Either one of the nurse sharks.

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Rosery :: Rosery (n.) A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1..
Cradle :: Cradle (v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.
Tender :: Tender (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does..
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..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..
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 nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant..
Nourice :: Nourice (n.) A nurse.
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place..
Ayah :: Ayah (n.) A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid..
Dry Nurse :: Dry nurse () A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it..
Patient :: Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.
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.
Nurseryman :: Nurseryman (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc..
Matron :: Matron (n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital..
Nosel :: Nosel (v. t.) To nurse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle.
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like..
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