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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Nutritious :: Nutritious (a.) Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental..
Velvet :: Velvet (n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
Nourished :: Nourished (imp. & p. p.) of Nouris.
Nourish :: Nourish (n.) A nurse.
Mammalia :: Mammalia (n. pl.) The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother..
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm..
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..
Alimonious :: Alimonious (a.) Affording food; nourishing.
Nourishingly :: Nourishingly (adv.) Nutritively; cherishingly.
Nourish :: Nourish (v. t.) To cherish; to comfort.
Nurture :: Nurture (n.) That which nourishes; food; diet.
Pumpernickel :: Pumpernickel (n.) A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing..
Nutrient :: Nutrient (n.) Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth..
Aliment :: Aliment (n.) That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.
Nutriment :: Nutriment (n.) That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.
Nourish :: Nourish (v. t.) To support; to maintain.
Nursing :: Nursing (a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant..
Hearty :: Hearty (superl.) Promoting strength; nourishing; rich; abundant; as, hearty food; a hearty meal..
Atrophy :: Atrophy (n.) A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part.
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..
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