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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Seminary :: Seminary (n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The act of nursing.
Nursling :: Nursling (n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling..
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources..
Nurserymen :: Nurserymen (pl. ) of Nurseryma.
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 (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..
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..
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.
Nursed :: Nursed (imp. & p. p.) of Nurs.
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.
Noursle :: Noursle (v. t.) To nurse; to rear; to bring up.
Nursemaid :: Nursemaid (n.) A girl employed to attend children.
Upbreed :: Upbreed (v. t.) To rear, or bring up; to nurse..
Drynurse :: Drynurse (v. t.) To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast..
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..
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant..
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