Definition of nurse

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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..

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Fondle :: Fondle (v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child..
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 nourish; to cherish; to foste.
Escargatoire :: Escargatoire (n.) A nursery of snails.
Nosel :: Nosel (v. t.) To nurse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle.
Ayah :: Ayah (n.) A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.
Nurserymen :: Nurserymen (pl. ) of Nurseryma.
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..
Suckler :: Suckle (v. i.) To nurse; to suck.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The act of nursing.
Nurseryman :: Nurseryman (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc..
Nurstle :: Nurstle (v. t.) To nurse. See Noursle.
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..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where nursing is carried o.
Norice :: Norice (n.) Nurse.
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..
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place..
Tender :: Tender (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
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