Definition of nourish

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Nourish (v. t.) To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues..

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Fotive :: Fotive (a.) Nourishing.
Pedotrophy :: Pedotrophy (n.) The art of nourishing children properly.
Aliment :: Aliment (v. t.) To nourish; to support.
Cade :: Cade (v. t.) To bring up or nourish by hand, or with tenderness; to coddle; to tame..
Wean :: Wean (a.) To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment..
Nutrition :: Nutrition (n.) That which nourishes; nutriment.
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..
Fast :: Fast (v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
Pasture :: Pasture (n.) Food; nourishment.
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant..
Alimonious :: Alimonious (a.) Affording food; nourishing.
Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine..
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..
Trophic :: Trophic (a.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition..
Nourishing :: Nourishing (a.) Promoting growth; nutritious,.
Evolutility :: Evolutility (n.) The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure..
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..
Crude :: Crude (superl.) Undigested; unconcocted; not brought into a form to give nourishment.
Aerophyte :: Aerophyte (n.) A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte..
Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural..
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