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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..

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

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

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

Nurseryman :: Nurseryman (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc..

Nursehound :: Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.

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

Nurse :: Nurse (n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like..

Nurseries :: Nurseries (pl. ) of Nurser.

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

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

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..

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.

Suckle :: Suckle (v. t.) To give suck to; to nurse at the breast.

Nursepond :: Nursepond (n.) A pond where fish are fed.

Drynurse :: Drynurse (v. t.) To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast..

Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..

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..

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

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