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nursed |
2 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: nursed adj : (of an infant) breast-fed [syn: {suckled}]
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