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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Dry Nurse :: Dry nurse () A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where nursing is carried o.
Noursle :: Noursle (v. t.) To nurse; to rear; to bring up.
Seminary :: Seminary (n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
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..
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..
Fostress :: Fostress (n.) A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.
Nourice :: Nourice (n.) A nurse.
Escargatoire :: Escargatoire (n.) A nursery of snails.
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon..
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster..
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..
Nurseries :: Nurseries (pl. ) of Nurser.
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..
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) Either one of the nurse sharks.
Cradle :: Cradle (v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.
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..
Wet Nurse :: Wet nurse () A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse..
Nurserymen :: Nurserymen (pl. ) of Nurseryma.
Suckling :: Suckling (v. t.) A young child or animal nursed at the breast.
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