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Seminary :: Seminary (n.) A piece of ground where seed is sown for producing plants for transplantation; a nursery; a seed plat.

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

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

Nurser :: Nurser (n.) One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

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

Dry Nurse :: Dry nurse () A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it..

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

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..

Nurstle :: Nurstle (v. t.) To nurse. See Noursle.

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 nourish; to cherish; to foste.

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where nursing is carried o.

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..

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..

Norice :: Norice (n.) Nurse.

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

Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster..

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.

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