nurse¹ /nûrs/

1. A woman who suckles a child, esp another person's child, a wet nurse (archaic)
2. A person who tends a child (old)
3. A person who has the care of the sick, feeble or injured, esp one who is trained for the purpose
4. A person given the task of supervising a new or incompetent employee (rare)
5. A worker bee, ant, etc that tends the young
6. A budding form in tunicates
7. Someone who or that which feeds, rears, tends, saves, fosters or develops anything, or preserves it in any desired condition
8. A shrub or tree that protects a young plant (horticulture)
9. The state of being nursed, in the phrases at nurse or out to nurse

1. (also intransitive verb) to suckle (a baby)
2. (also intransitive verb) to tend (eg an infant or a sick person)
3. To bring up
4. To cherish
5. To manage or treat with care and economy
6. To play skilfully, manipulate carefully, or keep watchfully in touch with, in order to obtain or preserve the desired condition
7. To keep (the balls) together for a cannon or series of cannons (billiards)
8. To hold, carry or cuddle (as a nurse does a child)

nurseˈlike adjective

nurseˈling or nursˈling noun

1. That which is nursed or fostered
2. An infant that is being suckled

nursˈer noun

nursˈing noun

The profession or practice of caring for the sick, feeble or injured (also adjective)

nursling see nurseling above

nurseˈ-child noun

1. A child in the care of a nurse
2. A foster-child

nurseˈmaid noun

1. A woman employed to take care of children
2. A person who guides or cares for another

transitive verb

To act as a nursemaid to

nurse practitioner noun

A registered nurse who takes on some of the tasks of primary health care usually performed by doctors, such as limited prescribing, plastering broken limbs, etc

nurseˈ-tend transitive verb and intransitive verb

To attend as a sick-nurse

nurseˈ-tender noun

nurseˈ-tending noun

nursˈing-bra noun

A bra for women who are breastfeeding, with cups which (partially) unfasten

nursing chair noun

A low chair without arms, used when feeding a baby

nursˈing-faˈther noun (Bible)

A foster-father

nursing home noun

A private hospital or residence providing care, eg to the elderly or infirm

nursing officer noun

Any of several grades of nurses having administrative duties

put (out) to nurse

1. To entrust to a nurse, esp a baby to a wet nurse, usu away from home
2. To put (an estate) under trustees

nurse² /nûrs/

1. A shark
2. A dogfish

nurseˈhound noun

A European dogfish (Scyliorhinus caniculus or S. stellaris)

nurse shark noun

Any shark of the family Orectolobidae

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• ashlered
• ashlering
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• ashore
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• a shot across the bows
• a shot in the arm
• a shot in the dark
• a shoulder to cry on
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