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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..

Nurserymen :: Nurserymen (pl. ) of Nurseryma.

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..

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

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..

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

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

Nurse :: Nurse (n.) Either one of the nurse sharks.

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

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

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 (n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like..

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

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

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

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

Nourice :: Nourice (n.) A nurse.

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