noun. A person trained to provide medical care for the sick or disabled, especially one who is licensed and works in a hospital or physician's office.

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noun. A person employed to take care of a young child.

noun. A woman employed to suckle children other than her own; a wet nurse.

noun. One that serves as a nurturing or fostering influence or means.

noun. A worker ant or bee that feeds and cares for the colony's young.

intransitive verb. To serve as a nurse for.

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intransitive verb. To cause or allow to take milk from the breast.

intransitive verb. To feed at the breast of; suckle.

intransitive verb. To try to cure by special care or treatment.

intransitive verb. To treat carefully, especially in order to prevent pain.

intransitive verb. To manage or guide carefully; look after with care; foster: synonym: nurture.

intransitive verb. To bear privately in the mind.

intransitive verb. To consume slowly, especially in order to conserve.

intransitive verb. To serve as a nurse.

intransitive verb. To take nourishment from the breast; suckle.

To suckle; nourish at the breast; feed and tend generally in infancy.

To rear; nurture; bring up.

To tend in sickness or infirmity; take care of: as, to nurse an invalid or an aged person.

To promote growth or vigor in; encourage; foster; care for with the intent or effect of promoting growth, increase, development, etc.

To caress; fondle; dandle.

To Cheat.

Synonyms Nourish, etc. See nurture, v. t.

To act as nurse; specifically, to suckle a child: as, a nursing woman.

noun. In entomology, one of the worker-ants or worker-bees whose function in the colony is to care for the young brood.

In billiards, formerly, to make a number of consecutive caroms, as rapid as dainty, off (balls) held but an inch or two apart.

noun. A woman who nourishes or suckles an infant; specifically, a woman who suckles the infant of another: commonly called a wet-nurse; also, a female servant who has the core of a child or of children.

noun. Hence, one who or that which nurtures, trains, cherishes, or protects.

noun. One who has the care of a sick or infirm person, as an attendant in a hospital.

noun. In the United States navy, a sick-bay attendant, formerly called loblolly-boy.

noun. The state of being nursed or in the care of a nurse: as, to put out a child to nurse.

noun. In horticulture, a shrub or tree which protects a young plant.

noun. In ichthyology, a name of various sharks of inactive habits, which rest for a long time or bask in the water.

noun. A blastozoöid. See the quotation.

noun. In brewing, a cask of hot or cold water immersed in wort. See the quotation.

noun. A nurse-frog.

noun. 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.

noun. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.

noun. A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.

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noun. A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariæ by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.

noun. Either one of the nurse sharks.

noun. A large shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), native of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal fins situated behind the ventral fins.

noun. to send away to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse.

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noun. See Wet nurse, and Dry nurse, in the Vocabulary.

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transitive verb. To nourish; to cherish; to foster.

transitive verb. To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.