Definition of foster

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Foster (v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius..

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Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard..
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..
Fosterage :: Fosterage (n.) The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
Foster :: Foster (v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood..
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like..
Nuzzle :: Nuzzle (v. t.) To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring..
Fosterling :: Fosterling (n.) A foster child.
Foster :: Foster (n.) One who, or that which, fosters..
Foster :: Foster (v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius..
Impasture :: Impasture (v. t.) To place in a pasture; to foster.
Lap :: Lap (n.) The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury..
Fosterment :: Fosterment (n.) Food; nourishment.
Laissez Faire :: Laissez faire () Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government..
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster..
Godfather :: Godfather (v. t.) To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care.
Foster :: Foster (v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together.
#NAME? :: -ling () A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling..
Foster :: Foster (n.) A forester.
Embosom :: Embosom (v. t.) To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster..
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