NURSE
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Nurse (n&û;rs), 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.
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2. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
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The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise.
Burke.
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3. (Naut.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
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4. (Zo&ö;l.) (a) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariæ by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia. (b) Either one of the nurse sharks.
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Nurse shark. (Zo&ö;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.
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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.
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Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age.
Milton.
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Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore,
And nursed his youth along the marshy shore.
Dryden.
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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.
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By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion?
Locke.
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3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
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4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. A. Trollope.
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To nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to keep them in good position during a series of caroms.
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