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Nurserymen :: Nurserymen (pl. ) of Nurseryma.

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

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

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

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..

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

Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..

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..

Nourice :: Nourice (n.) A nurse.

Cr/che :: Cr/che (n.) A public nursery, where the young children of poor women are cared for during the day, while their mothers are at work..

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

Nourish :: Nourish (n.) A nurse.

Cradle :: Cradle (v. t.) To nurse or train in infancy.

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

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.

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

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

Foment :: Foment (v. t.) To nurse to life or activity; to cherish and promote by excitements; to encourage; to abet; to instigate; -- used often in a bad sense; as, to foment ill humors..

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..

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