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nurse

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nurse  \Nurse\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Nursed};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Nursing}.] 
  1.  To  nourish;  to  cherish;  to  foster;  as: 
  a  To  nourish  at  the  breast;  to  suckle;  to  feed  and  tend, 
  as  an  infant. 
  b  To  take  care  of  or  tend,  as  a  sick  person  or  an 
  invalid;  to  attend  upon 
 
  Sons  wont  to  nurse  their  parents  in  old  age. 
  --Milton. 
 
  Him  in  Egerian  groves  Aricia  bore,  And  nursed 
  his  youth  along  the  marshy  shore.  --Dryden. 
 
  2.  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.  ``To  nurse  the  saplings  tall.''  --Milton. 
 
  By  what  hands  [has  vice]  been  nursed  into  so 
  uncontrolled  a  dominion?  --Locke. 
 
  3.  To  manage  with  care  and  economy,  with  a  view  to  increase; 
  as  to  nurse  our  national  resources. 
 
  4.  To  caress;  to  fondle,  as  a  nurse  does  --A.  Trollope 
 
  {To  nurse  billiard  balls},  to  strike  them  gently  and  so  as  to 
  keep  them  in  good  position  during  a  series  of  caroms. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nurse  \Nurse\,  n.  [OE.  nourse,  nurice,  norice,  OF  nurrice 
  norrice,  nourrice,  F.  nourrice,  fr  L.  nutricia  nurse,  prop., 
  fem.  of  nutricius  that  nourishes;  akin  to  nutrix,  -icis, 
  nurse,  fr  nutrire  to  nourish.  See  {Nourish},  and  cf 
  {Nutritious}.] 
  1.  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. 
 
  2.  One  who  or  that  which  brings  up  rears,  causes  to  grow, 
  trains,  fosters,  or  the  like 
 
  The  nurse  of  manly  sentiment  and  heroic  enterprise. 
  --Burke. 
 
  3.  (Naut.)  A  lieutenant  or  first  officer,  who  is  the  real 
  commander  when  the  captain  is  unfit  for  his  place 
 
  4.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  a  A  peculiar  larva  of  certain  trematodes  which  produces 
  cercari[ae]  by  asexual  reproduction.  See  {Cercaria}, 
  and  {Redia}. 
  b  Either  one  of  the  nurse  sharks. 
 
  {Nurse  shark}.  (Zo["o]l.) 
  a  A  large  arctic  shark  ({Somniosus  microcephalus}), 
  having  small  teeth  and  feeble  jaws;  --  called  also 
  {sleeper  shark},  and  {ground  shark}. 
  b  A  large  shark  ({Ginglymostoma  cirratum}),  native  of 
  the  West  Indies  and  Gulf  of  Mexico,  having  the  dorsal 
  fins  situated  behind  the  ventral  fins. 
 
  {To  put  to  nurse},  or  {To  put  out  to  nurse},  to  send  away  to 
  be  nursed;  to  place  in  the  care  of  a  nurse. 
 
  {Wet  nurse},  {Dry  nurse}.  See  {Wet  nurse},  and  {Dry  nurse}, 
  in  the  Vocabulary. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Redia  \Re"di*a\  (r?"d?*?),  n.;  pl  L.  {Redi[ae]}  (-[=e]),  E. 
  {Redias}  (-?z).  [NL.;  of  uncertain  origin.]  (Zo["o]l.) 
  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 
  redi[ae],  or  else  cercari[ae]  within  its  own  body.  Called 
  also  {proscolex},  and  {nurse}.  See  Illustration  in  Appendix. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  nurse 
  n  1:  one  skilled  in  caring  for  the  sick  (usually  under  the 
  supervision  of  a  physician) 
  2:  a  woman  who  is  the  custodian  of  children  [syn:  {nanny},  {nursemaid}] 
  v  1:  try  to  cure  by  special  care  of  treatment,  of  an  illness  or 
  injury:  "He  nursed  his  cold  with  Chinese  herbs" 
  2:  maintain;  as  of  a  theory,  thoughts,  or  feelings;  "bear  a 
  grudge";  "hold  a  grudge"  [syn:  {harbor},  {harbour},  {hold}, 
  {entertain}] 
  3:  serve  as  a  nurse;  care  for  sick  or  handicapped  people 
  4:  treat  carefully;  "He  nursed  his  injured  back  by  lyng  in  bed 
  several  hours  every  afternoon";  "He  nursed  the  flowers  in 
  his  garden  and  fertilized  them  regularly" 
  5:  of  infants  [syn:  {breastfeed},  {suckle},  {suck},  {wet-nurse}, 
  {lactate},  {give  suck}]  [ant:  {bottlefeed}]




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