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

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..

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

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

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..

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources..

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

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.

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

Suckler :: Suckle (v. i.) To nurse; to suck.

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant..

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

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

Escargatoire :: Escargatoire (n.) A nursery of snails.

Fostress :: Fostress (n.) A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.

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..

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

Nursepond :: Nursepond (n.) A pond where fish are fed.

Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.

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

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