- a person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
- a woman who has the general care of a child or children; dry nurse.
- a woman employed to suckle an infant; wet nurse.
- any fostering agency or influence.
- a worker that attends the young in a colony of social insects.
- the act of maintaining the position of billiard balls in preparation for a carom.
- to tend or minister to in sickness, infirmity, etc.
- to try to cure (an ailment) by taking care of oneself: to nurse a cold.
- to look after carefully so as to promote growth, development, etc.; foster; cherish: to nurse one's meager talents.
- to treat or handle with adroit care in order to further one's own interests: to nurse one's nest egg.
- to use, consume, or dispense very slowly or carefully: He nursed the one drink all evening.
- to keep steadily in mind or memory: He nursed a grudge against me all the rest of his life.
- to suckle (an infant).
- to feed and tend in infancy.
- to bring up, train, or nurture.
- to clasp or handle carefully or fondly: to nurse a plate of food on one's lap.
- to maintain the position of (billiard balls) for a series of caroms.
- to suckle a child, especially one's own.
- (of a child) to suckle: The child did not nurse after he was three months old.
- to act as nurse; tend the sick or infirm.
- a person who tends the sick, injured, or infirm
- short for nursemaid
- a woman employed to breast-feed another woman's child; wet nurse
- a worker in a colony of social insects that takes care of the larvae
- to tend (the sick)
- to feed (a baby) at the breast; suckle
- to try to cure (an ailment)
- to clasp carefully or fondly
- (of a baby) to suckle at the breast (of)
- to look after (a child) as one's employment
- to attend to carefully; foster, cherish
- to harbour; preserve
- to keep (the balls) together for a series of cannons
