Word Meanings - NURSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place. A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariæ by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia. Either one of the nurse sharks. Nurse

Additional info about word: NURSE

A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place. A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariæ by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia. Either one of the nurse sharks. Nurse shark. A large arctic shark , having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also sleeper shark, and ground shark. A large shark , native of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal fins situated behind the ventral fins. -- To put to nurse, or To put out to nurse, to send away to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse. -- Wet nurse, Dry nurse. See Wet nurse, and Dry nurse, in the Vocabulary. (more info) nourrice, F. nourrice, fr. L. nutricia nurse, prop., fem. of nutricius that nourishes; akin to nutrix, -icis, nurse, fr. nutrire 1. One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm. 2. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NURSE)

• Cherish
• Foster
• nurse
• promote
• nourish
• nurture
• comfort
• protect
• entertain
• value
• encourage
• Coddle
• Spoil
• humor
• pamper
• caress
• Nourish
• Nurture
• fed
• foster
• cherish
• tend
• support

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of NURSE)

• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• discourage
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress
• Miscompute
• misestimate
• disesteem
• disregard
• vilipend
• underrate
• undervalue
• underestimate
• despise
• contemn
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to NURSE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• PAMPERER
  One who, or that which, pampers. Cowper.
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• MISCOMPUTE
  To compute erroneously. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• UNDERRATE
  A price less than the value; as, to sell a thing at an underrate. Cowley.
• ENCOURAGER
  One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
• PROTECT
  To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak. Syn. -- To guard; shield; preserve. See Defend.
• COMFORTABLY
  In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• SUPPORTFUL
  Abounding with support. Chapman.
• EXHAUSTION
  An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits. Note: The method of exhaustions was applied to great variety of propositions, pertaining to rectifications
• PROTECTRESS; PROTECTRIX
  A woman who protects.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• SUPPORTLESS
  Having no support. Milton.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• DISCOURAGEMENT
  1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection. 2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent;
• GOOD-HUMORED
  Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
• HUMOR
  A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin. "A body full of humors." Sir W. Temple. 3. State of mind, whether habitual or temporary (as formerly supposed to depend on the character or combination of the fluids
• DISCOMFORTABLE
  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.
• DISCONTINUE
  To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off. Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued. Bp. Burnet. I have discontinued school
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.