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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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Nursling :: Nursling (n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling..

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..

Nursemaid :: Nursemaid (n.) A girl employed to attend children.

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

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

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.

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..

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

Attend :: Attend (v. t.) To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve..

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

Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster..

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

Sporozoa :: Sporosac (n.) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia..

Suckling :: Suckling (v. t.) A young child or animal nursed at the breast.

Ayah :: Ayah (n.) A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid..

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

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under Nurse.

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..

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

Fondle :: Fondle (v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child..