Nurse
[nɜːs] or [nɝs]
Definition
(noun.) one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician).
(verb.) try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury; 'He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs'.
(verb.) treat carefully; 'He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon'; 'He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly'.
(verb.) serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people.
Checker: Millicent--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
(n.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
(n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
(n.) Either one of the nurse sharks.
(v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foster
(v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
(v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
(v. t.) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Nourish, nurture, supply with nourishment.[2]. Suckle, feed at the breast, give suck to.[3]. Cherish, foster, encourage, succor, promote.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See NOURISH]
Editor: Nolan
Definition
n. a woman who nourishes an infant: a mother while her infant is at the breast: one who has the care of infants or of the sick: (hort.) a shrub or tree which protects a young plant.—v.t. to tend as an infant or a sick person: to bring up: to cherish: to manage with care and economy: to play skilfully as billiard-balls in order to get them into the position one wants.—adj. Nurse′like (Shak.) like or becoming a nurse.—ns. Nurse′maid a girl who takes care of children; Nurs′er one who nurses: one who promotes growth; Nurs′ery place for nursing: an apartment for young children: a place where the growth of anything is promoted: (hort.) a piece of ground where plants are reared; Nurs′ery-gov′erness; Nurs′erymaid a nurse-maid; Nurs′eryman a man who owns or works a nursery: one who is employed in cultivating plants &c. for sale; Nurs′ing-fa′ther (B.) a foster-father; Nurs′ling that which is nursed: an infant.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that a nurse is retained in your home, foretells distressing illness, or unlucky visiting among friends. To see a nurse leaving your house, omens good health in the family. For a young woman to dream that she is a nurse, denotes that she will gain the esteem of people, through her self-sacrifice. If she parts from a patient, she will yield to the persuasion of deceit.
Editor: Luke
Unserious Contents or Definition
One who keeps setting up the drinks after you're all in.
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Examples
- He held his cap in his hand and looked at the elderly nurse. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- No nurse fit to wait on her being at hand in the neighbourhood, her ladyship the Countess and myself undertook the duty, relieving each other. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You must know that last night was the very first night that I have ever slept without a nurse in the room. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It seemed a long while--she did not know how long--before she heard Celia saying, That will do, nurse; he will be quiet on my lap now. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Another nurse was with her. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- When they get done washing, they sit in the alleys and nurse their cubs. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I was lodging with a comical old widow, who had formerly been my sister Fanny's nurse when she was quite a child. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You can't come in now, one of the nurses said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Any presence but that of the nurses was a strain and an effort to him now. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Catherine Barkley was greatly liked by the nurses because she would do night duty indefinitely. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There was another doctor and more nurses. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The nurses who were sitting at the rail motioned for me to come down where they were. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- My aunt, the best and most cheerful of nurses, would trudge after us, a moving mass of shawls and pillows. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- They need that many nurses. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Not knowing what else to do with my girl while I was nursing in Cumberland, I put her to school at Limmeridge. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Well, you know, Chettam, said Mr. Brooke, good-humoredly, nursing his leg, I can't turn my back on Dorothea. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But poor Lady Glyde knew nothing of nursing--nothing whatever, I am sorry to say. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- On my word, I understand nursing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But you talk as if you had been nursing her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She wants no doctor now--all she requires is careful watching and nursing for some time to come, and that I see she has. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Now, I wonder,' he meditated as he went along, nursing his stick, 'whether it can be, that Venus is setting himself to get the better of Wegg? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was nursed into power--generously and unsuspiciously. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And it gained its point after all, for I saw it through the window within a few minutes, being nursed by little Jane. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A nervous fever was the consequence; during which he was nursed by the daughter of a poor cottager, under whose roof he lodged. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She has nursed me by day and a hired nurse has looked after me by night, for in my mad fits I was capable of anything. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Long and tenderly she nursed me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He would leave that forever behind him with the great hopes he had nursed there of finding his own race and becoming a man among men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Then hunger closed the gap between them, and the son of an English lord and an English lady nursed at the breast of Kala, the great ape. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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