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noun

Dry nurse n. A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.

Nurse n.

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.

One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. "The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise."

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

(Zool.)

(a)

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

(b)

Either one of the nurse sharks.

Nurse shark. (Zool.)

(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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... votes wet and has influence (like some F.S. corps), it can sneak into the Channel or the Home Fleet and do a cruise round England or to Madeira or the North Sea. The regiment, of course, is distributed among the ships, and the Fleet dry nurse 'em. It rather breaks up shore discipline, but it gives the inland men a bit of experience, and, of course, it gives us a fairish supply of men behind the gun, in event of any strain on the Fleet. Some coast corps make a specialty of it, and compete for ...

— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling