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Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does..

Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.

Cradle :: Cradle (v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.

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

Upbreed :: Upbreed (v. t.) To rear, or bring up; to nurse..

Wet Nurse :: Wet nurse () A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse..

Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster..

Nurstle :: Nurstle (v. t.) To nurse. See Noursle.

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.

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

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..

Fostress :: Fostress (n.) A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon..

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

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..

Suckling :: Suckling (v. t.) A young child or animal nursed at the breast.

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..

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

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

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