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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nursing  \Nurs"ing\,  a. 
  Supplying  or  taking  nourishment  from  or  as  from  the  breast; 
  as  a  nursing  mother;  a  nursing  infant. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  nursing 
  n  1:  the  work  of  caring  for  the  sick  or  injured  or  infirm 
  2:  nourishing  at  the  breast 




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