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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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Nursed :: Nursed (imp. & p. p.) of Nurs.

Upbreed :: Upbreed (v. t.) To rear, or bring up; to nurse..

Wet Nurse :: Wet nurse () A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse..

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

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

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The act of nursing.

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..

Nurseries :: Nurseries (pl. ) of Nurser.

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

Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..

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

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

Redia :: Redia (n.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix..

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..

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foste.

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

Tender :: Tender (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.

Seminary :: Seminary (n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees..

Cradle :: Cradle (v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.