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Nurse \Nurse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nursed; p. pr. & vb. n. Nursing.]

1. 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. --Milton.

Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. --Dryden.

2. 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.'' --Milton.

By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion? --Locke.

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

4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. --A. Trollope.

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Nursing \Nurs"ing\, a. Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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