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wet nurse, wet-nurse, n.
A woman who is hired to suckle and nurse another woman's child. Cf. dry-nurse.
1620Middleton Chaste Maid ii. ii, I call the Wet Nurse hither. a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 45 Shee was both wet-Nurse, and dry-Nurse herselfe. And yet this his handmaid was his Mother. 1689Full Answ. Depos. Birth Pr. Wales 7 Query, Whether she did not use to provide a Wet-Nurse, at her other Deliveries. 1776Pennsylvania Even. Post 8 Feb. 70/2 Wants a place, as Wet Nurse, a young woman with a good breast of milk. 1888M. E. Braddon Fatal Three i. iii, A wet-nurse being wanted at the great house.
transf. and fig.1826Hood Irish Schoolm. xxi, How Romulus was bred in savage wood, By wet-nurse wolf, devoid of wolfish rage. 1884Gilmour Mongols xxxii. 375 China has acted the wet-nurse to Mongolia, and discharged her duty well. |