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Nursery   /nˈərsəri/   Listen
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Nursery  n.  (pl. nurseries)  
1.
The act of nursing. (Obs.) "Her kind nursery."
2.
The place where nursing is carried on; as:
(a)
The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
(b)
A place where young of any species, plant or animal, are nourished preparatory to transfer elsewhere; especially A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.
(c)
The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted. "Fair Padua, nursery of arts." "Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven."
(d)
That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
3.
That which is nursed. (R.)






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"Nursery" Quotes from Famous Books



... me do," piped the treble voice, and then the little feet commenced a careful and watchful pilgrimage, the lips still firmly shut, the dimples coming and going, and the eyes throwing many upward glances in the direction of Nurse and the nursery. ...
— A World of Girls - The Story of a School • L. T. Meade

... buccaneers, and the haunts of all the heroes and villains of history, in the Old World. The children did not look with incurious eyes upon this stirring scene. They knew the names of all the great European liners and of the warships passing to and from the Navy Yard; and the walls of their nursery were covered with their drawings of the shipping, rude enough, no doubt, but showing accurate observation of such details as funnels, masts and rigging. They were of an age, before they left Staten Island, to realize something of the historic ...
— Poems • Alan Seeger

... in the nursery and make your boy president and your little girl honorary member, and act as treasurer and ...
— A Woman of the World - Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters • Ella Wheeler Wilcox

... The most interesting subject connected with our trip was the cultivation and preparation of the mandioca. The chief produce is called farinha: the slaves are fed almost entirely on it. A field of mandioca, when ripe, looks something like a nursery of young plants. Each plant grows by itself, with a few palmated leaves only at the top. The stem is about an inch in diameter at the base, and six or seven feet long. A bud appears at nearly every inch of the otherwise smooth stem. These ...
— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston

... nails, and simple Baby Humors prevented and cured by CUTICURA SOAP. A marvelous beautifier of world-wide celebrity, it is simply incomparable as a Skin Purifying Soap, unequalled for the Toilet and without a rival for the Nursery. Absolutely pure, delicately medicated, exquisitely perfumed, CUTICURA SOAP produces the whitest, clearest skin and softest hands, and prevents inflammation and clogging of the pores, the cause of pimples, blackheads and most ...
— Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 • Various


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