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Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To remain awake with any one as nurse or attendant; to attend on the sick during the night; as, to watch with a man in a fever..

Infirmary :: Infirmary (n.) A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated..

Nourish :: Nourish (n.) A nurse.

Suckling :: Suckling (v. t.) A young child or animal nursed at the breast.

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The act of nursing.

Fondle :: Fondle (v.) To treat or handle with tenderness or in a loving manner; to caress; as, a nurse fondles a child..

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 (v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon..

Ayah :: Ayah (n.) A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid..

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.

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.

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..

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

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

Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.

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

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

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..

Upbreed :: Upbreed (v. t.) To rear, or bring up; to nurse..

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

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