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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

... husband's sloop. He had gone with the first light wind, and there was enough to bring him home, although with heavy sail. She forgot the muttering negroes and the sickness below. Her servants had been instructed to nurse and nourish where assistance was needed, and up here there was nothing to do but wander with her friend and child through the gay beauty of the terraced garden, or climb the stone steps to the cold ...

— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton

... seen right into hell. The first dressings are removed by the doctors—sometimes there is only a lump of cotton-wool to fill up a hole—and the men lie there with their tragic eyes fixed upon one. All day a nurse has sat by a man who has been shot through the lungs. Each breath is painful; it does not bear writing about. The pity of it all just breaks one's heart. But I suppose we do not see nearly the worst of ...

— My War Experiences in Two Continents • Sarah Macnaughtan

... mountain trails, accustomed to riding anything from a half-broken cayuse to a wabbly platform at a rope's end, the day's journey nowadays limited itself to being lifted out of bed in the arms of his lusty nurse, being placed with all discretion in the exact middle of a couch and in being trundled slowly across the floor to the bay window. Later in the day, the process repeated itself in the reverse direction, but with even greater care because of the fatiguing experiences of the day. ...

— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray

... summer; but as late as October he fell a victim to yellow fever. He had sent most of his surplus funds home, and his widow soon exhausted her scanty supply of money. Instead of applying to the American consul, she went to live with an English family as a nurse. But there she was taken sick herself, and was sent away from her comfortable home to a boarding-house, lest she should communicate some contagious disease to her employer's family. Here she had contracted a debt which she could ...

— Little Bobtail - or The Wreck of the Penobscot. • Oliver Optic

... the direction in which his downward path was tending. It was an honest little cough enough, so far as appearances went. But coughs are ungrateful things. You find one out in the cold, take it up and nurse it and make everything of it, dress it up warm, give it all sorts of balsams and other food it likes, and carry it round in your bosom as if it were a miniature lapdog. And by-and-by its little bark grows sharp and savage, and—confound the thing!—you find it is a wolf's whelp that ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various

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