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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
sons wont to nurse their parents in old age.
--milton.
1913 webster
him in egerian groves aricia bore,
and nursed his youth along the marshy shore.
--dryden.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
by what hands has vice been nursed into so
uncontrolled a dominion? --locke.
1913 webster
3. to manage with care and economy, with a view to increase;
as, to nurse our national resources.
1913 webster
4. to caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. --a. trollope.
1913 webster
to nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to
keep them in good position during a series of caroms.
1913 webster
see also:
nursed nursing to nurse billiard balls
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nursed \nursed\ adj.
fed mother's milk from the breast; -- of an infant.
syn: suckled, breast-fed.
wordnet 1.5
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
nursed
adj : of an infant breast-fed syn: suckled
see also:
suckled
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