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Nurse
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Either one of the nurse sharks.
(2):
(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.
(3):
(n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
(4):
(n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
(5):
(n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
(6):
(v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
(7):
(v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foster
(8):
(v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
(9):
(v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
(10):
(v. t.) 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.
(11):
(v. t.) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Nurse'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/n/nurse.html. 1828.
