nurse child

A child that is nursed; a nurse ling. nurse-forms, s. pl. Zool.: Intermediate forms of development in Acalephe, Entozoa, . nurse-hound, 8. [MORGAY.] 2875 7. To manage with care and economy; to economize, to husband; as, to nurse one's resources. 8. To care , to fondle. 9. To delay or drive slowly one's own vehicle, so as to dog or wait for another man's omnibus, ., and thus pick up its pa engers. "was summoned for delaying his carriage the cause of the delay was that defendant was waiting to nurse one of their omnibuses."-London Morning Chron icle . To nurse billiard balls . To so manipulate them as to be enabled to execute a series of short caroms. nürs-ēr, *nürs'-ser, s. [Eng. nurs(e); -er.] 1. One who nurses; a nurse. *2. One who promotes, foments, fosters, or encourages. "The most bloody nurser of his harms." Shakesp. Henry VI., Pt. I., iv. 7. nürs-er-, *nours-er-y, 8. [Eng. nurse; -ry.] *1. The act of nursing. "I lov'd her most, and thought to set my rest On her kind nursery." Shakesp: Lear, i. 1. *2. That which is nursed; a nursling. "A jolly dame, no doubt, as appears by the well-bathing of the plump boy, her nursery." -Fuller: A Pisgah Sight, pt. i., bk. ii., ch. viii. *3. That which is the object of one's care or attention. "To visit how they prosper'd, bud and bloom, Her nursery." Milton P. L. , viii. 46. *4. That which promotes, fosters, educates, or rears; a school. "It well may serve A nursery to our gentry." Shakesp: All's Well that Ends Well , 1. 2. 5. A place or room in a house set apart for young children. "This border-blacksmith marriage-one they knewRaw from the nursery-who could trust a child?" Tennyson: Aylmer's Field, 264. *6. A school or public institution where children are taught and trained. "Public nurseries, where all parents are obliged to send their infants."- Swift: Gulliver's Travels. 7. A place where trees are raised from seed or otherwise, to be afterward transplanted; a garden or place where flowers, vegetables, or trees are grown for sale. "Some peasants, not t' omit the nicest care, Of the same soil their nursery prepare." Dryden: Virgil ; Georgic ii. 359. 8. A place or country which promotes, fosters, or encourages; a promoter, a fosterer. "To see fair Padua, nursery of arts." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, i. 1. 9. A race for two-year-old horses. ( Eng .) "Winning three nurseries off the reel."-London Daily Telegraph. nursery-governe , subst. A governe for very young children.