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Definition of nurse

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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..

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Drynurse :: Drynurse (v. t.) To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast..

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever..

Suckle :: Suckle (v. t.) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.

Nurser :: Nurser (n.) One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

Altrices :: Altrices (n. pl.) Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces..

Nurseryman :: Nurseryman (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc..

Nuzzle :: Nuzzle (v. t.) To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where nursing is carried o.

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen..

Patient :: Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.

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.

Nurstle :: Nurstle (v. t.) To nurse. See Noursle.

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..

Norice :: Norice (n.) Nurse.

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon..

Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia..

Rosery :: Rosery (n.) A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1..

Infirmary :: Infirmary (n.) A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated..

Noursle :: Noursle (v. t.) To nurse; to rear; to bring up.

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..