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of Camden, p. 382. ( Davies.) nursing-bottle (ner's ing-bot'l), n. A bottle fitted with a rubber tip, or a tube and nipple, from which an infant draws milk by sucking. nurslet, nurstlet, v. Obsolete forms of nuzzle . nursling (nèrs'ling), n. [ nurse , v., + -ling1 .] One who or that which is nursed; an infant; a child; a fondling. I haue been now almost this fourtie yeares, not a geaste, but a continuall nurslynge in maister Bonuice house. Sir T. More, Works, p. 1456. I was his nursling once. Milton , S. A., 1. 633. But now thy youngest, dearest one has perished, The nursling of thy widowhood. Shelley, Adonais, st. 6. The problem of determining purely "racial characteristics" will be considerably simplified if we can in this way determine what may be described in contradistinction as " nurtural characteristics." Jour. Anthrop . Inst., XIX. 78. nurture (nêr'tūr), n. [Early mod. E. also nourt ture; noureture , nourriture, norriture, F. nourriture, nutritura , tritura , nourishment, nourishment, nutrire , pp. nutritus , nourish: see nourish .] The act of supplying with nourishment; the act or proce of cultivating or promoting growth. For this Ordain'd thy nurture holy, as of a plant Select and sacred. L. 1.