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Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention..

Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.

Escargatoire :: Escargatoire (n.) A nursery of snails.

Dry Nurse :: Dry nurse () A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it..

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

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

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

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

Norice :: Norice (n.) Nurse.

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, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..

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.) 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..

Noursle :: Noursle (v. t.) To nurse; to rear; to bring up.

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..

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

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..

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

Nursed :: Nursed (imp. & p. p.) of Nurs.

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

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