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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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