Definition of foster

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Foster (v. t.) To cherish; to promote the growth of; to encourage; to sustain and promote; as, to foster genius..

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Foster :: Foster (v. i.) To be nourished or trained up together.
Embosom :: Embosom (v. t.) To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster..
Foster :: Foster (v. t.) To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.
Fosterage :: Fosterage (n.) The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing.
Breed :: Breed (v. t.) To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster..
Foster :: Foster (n.) One who, or that which, fosters..
Nourish :: Nourish (v. t.) To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues..
Fosterment :: Fosterment (n.) Food; nourishment.
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like..
Impasture :: Impasture (v. t.) To place in a pasture; to foster.
Fostering :: Fostering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Foste.
#NAME? :: -ling () A noun suffix, commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duckling, gosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling..
Lap :: Lap (n.) The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury..
Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring..
Fosterling :: Fosterling (n.) A foster child.
Foster :: Foster (v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood..
Godfather :: Godfather (v. t.) To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care.
Laissez Faire :: Laissez faire () Noninterference; -- an axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government..
Cherish :: Cherish (v. t.) To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle..
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