Definition of nurse

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

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Upbreed :: Upbreed (v. t.) To rear, or bring up; to nurse..
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..
Nurseryman :: Nurseryman (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc..
Nurser :: Nurser (n.) One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
Suckler :: Suckle (v. i.) To nurse; to suck.
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foste.
Wet Nurse :: Wet nurse () A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse..
Noursle :: Noursle (v. t.) To nurse; to rear; to bring up.
Nourish :: Nourish (n.) A 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..
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster..
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 take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon..
Nursemaid :: Nursemaid (n.) A girl employed to attend children.
Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..
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 lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place..
Patient :: Patient (n.) A person under medical or surgical treatment; -- correlative to physician or nurse.
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