Definition of nurse

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

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Escargatoire :: Escargatoire (n.) A nursery of snails.
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..
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia..
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..
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..
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..
Suckler :: Suckle (v. i.) To nurse; to suck.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The act of nursing.
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..
Nursling :: Nursling (n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling..
Tender :: Tender (n.) One who tends; one who takes care of any person or thing; a nurse.
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place..
Nuzzle :: Nuzzle (v. t.) To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where nursing is carried o.
Infirmary :: Infirmary (n.) A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated..
Suckle :: Suckle (v. t.) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.
Patient :: Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
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..
Nurseryman :: Nurseryman (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc..
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