Definition of nourish

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Nourish (v. t.) To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment..

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Feed :: Feed (v. i.) To be nourished, strengthened, or satisfied, as if by food..
Irrigation :: Irrigation (n.) The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants..
Inalimental :: Inalimental (a.) Affording no aliment or nourishment.
Fertilize :: Fertilize (v. t.) To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows..
Innutritious :: Innutritious (a.) Not nutritious; not furnishing nourishment.
Nurture :: Nurture (n.) That which nourishes; food; diet.
Meat :: Meat (n.) Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg..
Hotbed :: Hotbed (n.) A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics..
Velvet :: Velvet (n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
Crude :: Crude (superl.) Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
Foster :: Foster (v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
Live :: Live (v. i.) To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain..
Alimental :: Alimental (a.) Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap..
Dodder :: Dodder (n.) A plant of the genus Cuscuta. It is a leafless parasitical vine with yellowish threadlike stems. It attaches itself to some other plant, as to flax, goldenrod, etc., and decaying at the root, is nourished by the plant that supports it..
Root :: Root (n.) That which resembles a root in position or function, esp. as a source of nourishment or support; that from which anything proceeds as if by growth or development; as, the root of a tooth, a nail, a cancer, and the like..
Cade :: Cade (v. t.) To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame..
Pedotrophy :: Pedotrophy (n.) The art of nourishing children properly.
Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To digest; to convert into nourishment by the organs of nutrition.
Nourish :: Nourish (v. t.) To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues..
Nourishing :: Nourishing (a.) Promoting growth; nutritious,.
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