Definition of nurse

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

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Dry Nurse :: Dry nurse () A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it..
Patient :: Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The act of nursing.
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..
Nurserymen :: Nurserymen (pl. ) of Nurseryma.
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) Either one of the nurse sharks.
Escargatoire :: Escargatoire (n.) A nursery of snails.
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..
Wet Nurse :: Wet nurse () A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..
Tender :: Tender (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.
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..
Nourice :: Nourice (n.) 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..
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does..
Nurseries :: Nurseries (pl. ) of Nurser.
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..
Nursemaid :: Nursemaid (n.) A girl employed to attend children.
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