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verb

Nurse v. t. (past & past part. nursed; pres. part. nursing)

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. "Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age." "Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore."

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." "By what hands (has vice) been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion?"

To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.

To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.

To nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to keep them in good position during a series of caroms.

adjective

Nursing adj. Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

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Etymology of 'Nursing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nursing" Quotes from Famous Books

... is possible when you give a sound man twenty-four hours a day in our hills for a few years," he added. "Thanks to your nursing he's going to shave through by the narrowest margin possible. I told him to-day that he owed his life to ...

— Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West • William MacLeod Raine

... was greatly moved at the heroic stand Jessie Bain proposed to take in nursing her rival back ...

— Kidnapped at the Altar - or, The Romance of that Saucy Jessie Bain • Laura Jean Libbey

... feebly till it found that of his friend. A few minutes later he died, still holding the strong warm hand of the man who was nursing him. ...

— Oh, You Tex! • William Macleod Raine

... storm, but she won't do for harbour duty. But the fact is, you're all wrong there, Jack: it's the babbies I likes—I likes to see them both together, hanging at the niggers' breasts, I always think of two spider-monkeys nursing two kittens.' ...

— The Pirate and The Three Cutters • Frederick Marryat

... well as in making pins' heads, or in nursing sick people, or in cutting square blocks out of a chalk pit for thirty years together, or in any other occupation which may be ordained to prove to us that happiness lies in the temper, and not in the object of a pursuit? ...

— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau

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