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Nurse   /nərs/   Listen
Nurse

noun
1.
One skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician).
2.
A woman who is the custodian of children.  Synonyms: nanny, nursemaid.
verb
(past & past part. nursed; pres. part. nursing)
1.
Try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury.
2.
Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings).  Synonyms: entertain, harbor, harbour, hold.  "Entertain interesting notions" , "Harbor a resentment"
3.
Serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people.
4.
Treat carefully.  "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"
5.
Give suck to.  Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, suck, suckle, wet-nurse.  "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"  Antonym: bottlefeed.



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"Nurse" Quotes from Famous Books



... almost any work welcome. If it is done from love or unselfish affection, the human cost is almost nil, because it is not counted or consciously felt. This is no exaggeration when it is applied to the devoted labour of the mother and the nurse, or to that of the evangelist conscious of a divine vocation. But in all useful work the keen desire to render social service, or to do God's will, diminishes to an incalculable extent the 'human cost' of labour. ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge

... insignificant-looking young lady, but none the less a lady who wore her clothes a la St. Petersburg, and cultivated the society of persons who were unimpeachably comme il faut. Behind her, borne in a nurse's arms, came the first fruits of the love of husband and wife. Adopting his most telling method of approach (the method accompanied with a sidelong inclination of the head and a sort of hop), Chichikov hastened to greet the lady from the metropolis, ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... with its creeping terror, cold with its sudden clinch; Cold so utter you wonder if 'twill ever again be warm; Clancy grinned as he shuddered, "Surely it isn't a cinch Being wet-nurse to a looney in the teeth ...
— Ballads of a Cheechako • Robert W. Service

... Here's the Sewer's exposure of the Wall Street Gang, and the Sewer's exposure of the Washington Gang, and the Sewer's exclusive account of a flagrant act of dishonesty committed by the Secretary of State when he was eight years old; now communicated, at a great expense, by his own nurse. Here's the Sewer! Here's the New York Sewer, in its twelfth thousand, with a whole column of New Yorkers to be shown up, and all their names printed! Here's the Sewer's article upon the Judge that ...
— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... to lament for that thou canst not helpe, And study helpe for that which thou lament'st, Time is the Nurse, and breeder of all good; Here, if thou stay, thou canst not see thy loue: Besides, thy staying will abridge thy life: Hope is a louers staffe, walke hence with that And manage it, against despairing thoughts: Thy letters may be here, though thou art hence, Which, being writ ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare


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