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Holland, tr. of Camden, p. 383. (Davies.) nurse-name (nėrs'nām), n. A nickname. Cam den. nurse-pond (ners'pond), n. A pond for young fish. in When you store your pond, you are to put into it two or three melters for one spawner, if you put them into a breed ing-pond; but if into a nurse -pond, or feeding-pond, which they will not breed, then no care is to be taken. I. Walton , Complete Angler, i. 20. nurser (nėr'sér), n . One who nurses; a nurse; hence, one who promotes or encourages. See, where he lies inhearsed in the arms Of the most bloody nurser of his harms! Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 7. 46. IMG:content-1521.png:[blocks in formation] 2t. That which is the object of a nurse's care. Rose, and went forth among her fruits and flowers, To visit, how they prosper'd, bud and bloom, Her nursery . Milton , P. L., viii. 46. A jolly dame, no doubt; as appears by the well battling of the plump boy her nursery . Fuller , Pisgah Sight, II. viii. 21. 3. A place or apartment set apart for children. There's bluid in my nursery, There's bluid in my ha'. The eldest of them at three years old, I' the swathing-clothes the other, from their nursery Were stol'n. Shak ., Cymbeline, i. 1. 59. 4. A place where trees are raised from seed or otherwise in order to be transplanted; a place where vegetables, flowering plants, and trees are raised (as by budding or grafting) with a view to sale. Your nursery of stocks ought to be in a more barren ground than the ground is whereunto you remove them. Bacon . There is a fine nursery of young trees. Coryat, Crudities, I. 69. 5. The place where anything is fostered and its growth promoted. Revele to me the sacred noursery Of vertue, which with you doth there remaine. Spenser, F. Q., VI., Prol. Shak., T. of the S., i. 1. 2. One of their principall Coll edges was their famous Sorbona, that fruit full nursery of schoole divines. Coryat, Crudities, I. 28. To Athens I have sent, the nursery Of Greece for learning and the fount of knowledge. Ford , Broken Heart, v. 1. 6. In fish -culture , a shallow box or trough of suitable size used for feeding and nursing young fish through the first six or eight months after the yolk-sac is absorbed. They are guarded with screens like hatching-troughs, and also, like the latter, have usually a layer of gravel on the bottom. 7. Occupation, condition, or circumstances in which some quality may be fostered or promoted. This keeping of cowes is of itselfe a very idle life, and a fitt nurserye of a theefe. Spenser, State of Ireland. Nursery-gardener, a nurseryman. nursery-maid (ner'sèr-i-mād), n. A nursemaid. IMG:content-1522.png:[blocks in formation] Sir Thomas Bodley, a right worship full knight, and a most worthy nource -son of this Vniversity.