Definition of nurse

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Nurse (n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place..

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Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster..
Infirmary :: Infirmary (n.) A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated..
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does..
Rosery :: Rosery (n.) A place where roses are cultivated; a nursery of roses. See Rosary, 1..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where nursing is carried o.
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..
Nourice :: Nourice (n.) A nurse.
Wet Nurse :: Wet nurse () A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse..
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..
Nurseries :: Nurseries (pl. ) of Nurser.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen..
Nursed :: Nursed (imp. & p. p.) of Nurs.
Nosel :: Nosel (v. t.) To nurse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle.
Upbreed :: Upbreed (v. t.) To rear, or bring up; to nurse..
Tender :: Tender (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The act of nursing.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..
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..
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources..
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