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Matron :: Matron (n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital..

Nursling :: Nursling (n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling..

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

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

Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foste.

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..

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

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

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.

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..

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..

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

Nosel :: Nosel (v. t.) To nurse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle.

Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.

Sleeper :: Sleeper (n.) A nurse shark. See under 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..

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..

Nurseries :: Nurseries (pl. ) of Nurser.

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

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

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