Definition of nurse

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

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Drynurse :: Drynurse (v. t.) To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast..
Seminary :: Seminary (n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.
Norice :: Norice (n.) Nurse.
Dry Nurse :: Dry nurse () A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it..
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources..
Suckler :: Suckle (v. i.) To nurse; to suck.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia..
Fondle :: Fondle (v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child..
Nursling :: Nursling (n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling..
Nosel :: Nosel (v. t.) To nurse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle.
Nursemaid :: Nursemaid (n.) A girl employed to attend children.
Nursepond :: Nursepond (n.) A pond where fish are fed.
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..
Patient :: Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
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..
Nurserymen :: Nurserymen (pl. ) of Nurseryma.
Milkwort :: Milkwort (n.) A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..
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