Word Meanings - NURSER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

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• 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
• NURSER
  One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
• NURSERY
  1. The act of nursing. "Her kind nursery." Shak. 2. The place where nursing is carried on; as: The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children. A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated
• GROWTHEAD
  A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
• NURSERYMAN
  One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
• GROWTH
  1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production;
• NURSEHOUND
  See HOUNDFISH
• GROWTHFUL
  Having capacity of growth. J. Hamilton.
• NURSEMAID
  A girl employed to attend children.
• NURSEPOND
  A pond where fish are fed. Walton.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
• DRYNURSE
  To feed, attend, and bring up without the breast. Hudibras.
• DRY NURSE
  A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a wet nurse, who suckles it.
• UPGROWTH
  The process or result of growing up; progress; development. The new and mighty upgrowth of poetry in Italy. J. R. Green.
• WET NURSE
  A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse.
• OVERGROWTH
  Excessive growth.
• REGROWTH
  The act of regrowing; a second or new growth. Darwin. The regrowth of limbs which had been cut off. A. B. Buckley.
• AFTERGROWTH
  A second growth or crop, or development. J. S. Mill.