Nurse ¹

Definition: 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.

Nurse ²

Definition: One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.

Nurse ³

Definition: A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.

Nurse ⁴

Definition: A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.

Nurse ⁵

Definition: Either one of the nurse sharks.

Nurse ⁶

Definition: To nourish; to cherish; to foster

Nurse ⁷

Definition: To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.

Nurse ⁸

Definition: To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.

Nurse ⁹

Definition: 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.

Nurse ¹⁰

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

Nurse ¹¹

Definition: To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.

nurse ¹²

Definition: a woman who is the custodian of children

nurse ¹³

Definition: one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)

nurse ¹⁴

Definition: try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury; "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs"

nurse ¹⁵

Definition: give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"

nurse ¹⁶

Definition: maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment"

nurse ¹⁷

Definition: treat carefully; "He nursed his injured back by liyng in bed several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"

nurse ¹⁸

Definition: serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people