Noun

nown, n. {Gram.) A word used as the desig- nation of a creature or thing, etc.; a name; a substantive. [OF.; L. nornen = E. name, q. v.] Nourish, ner'ish, [-ished (-isht), -ishing.] To feed and cause to grow; to furnish with nutriment; to supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to comfort; to educate, instruct; to nurture, cherish, feed, provide, supply. — v. To promote growth. [ME. nonsen, OF. norir (F. nourrir), L. nutrire, -tritum, to nurse, nourish; perh. Skr. snu, to distill.] — No urls hable, a. — Nour'isher, n. — Nourishment, n. Act of, or state of being, etc.; nutrition that which nourishes, repairs waste, or — promotes growth food sustenance. Nurse, ners, n. One who takes care of a child or the sick; esp., one who suckles an infant not her own; one who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, etc. — v. [nursed (nerst), nursing.] To nourish, cherish, foster to nourish at the breast, suckle to tend (a sick person) to bring up, raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition. [ME. — nurice, norice, OF. norrice, L. nutrix, nutrire.] Wet nurse. A woman who suckles an infant not her own. — Nurs^er, n. — Nurs'ery, -er-T, n. Act of nursing; the apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children; a plantation of young trees; place where anything is fostered and growth promoted; that which forms and educates. — Nurseryman pi. -men. One who lias charge of a nursery. — Nurs'ling, n. One who, or that which, nursed; an infant. — Nurt'ure, ner'chur, n. Act of nourishing or nursing; education: training; discipline; instruction; that which nourishes; food; diet. — v.t. [nurtured (-churd), -Turing.] To feed; to bring or train up; to nourish, cherish, tend. [ME. norture, OF. nor it are, and L. nutritura, n., prop, fem. of fut. p. of L. nutrire.] — Nu'triment, -trtnient, n. That which nourishes; food; aliment; that which promotes enlargement or improvement. [L. nutrimentum.] — Nu'trunenfal, a. Having the qualities of food; alimental. — Nu'trient, -trl-ent, n. A substance which, etc.— Nutri'tion, -trisb/un, n. Act or proce of promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal or vegetable life; nutriment. — Nutritious, -trish 'us, a. Nourishing. [L. nutricius, -tins.] — Nu'tritive, -trY-tiv, a. Nutrimental. — Nu'- tritivene , n.