Definition of Nurses. Meaning of Nurses. Synonyms of Nurses

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Definition of Nurses

Nurse
Nurse Nurse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nursed; p. pr. & vb. n. Nursing.] 1. To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as: (a) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. (b) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon. Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age. --Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. --Dryden. 2. To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention. ``To nurse the saplings tall.' --Milton. By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion? --Locke. 3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources. 4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. --A. Trollope. To nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to keep them in good position during a series of caroms.
Nurse
Nurse Nurse, n. [OE. nourse, nurice, norice, OF. nurrice, norrice, nourrice, F. nourrice, fr. L. nutricia nurse, prop., fem. of nutricius that nourishes; akin to nutrix, -icis, nurse, fr. nutrire to nourish. See Nourish, and cf. Nutritious.] 1. One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm. 2. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise. --Burke. 3. (Naut.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place. 4. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercari[ae] by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia. (b) Either one of the nurse sharks. Nurse shark. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A large arctic shark (Somniosus microcephalus), having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also sleeper shark, and ground shark. (b) A large shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), native of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal fins situated behind the ventral fins. To put to nurse, or To put out to nurse, to send away to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse. Wet nurse, Dry nurse. See Wet nurse, and Dry nurse, in the Vocabulary.
nurse
Redia Re"di*a (r?"d?*?), n.; pl. L. Redi[ae] (-[=e]), E. Redias (-?z). [NL.; of uncertain origin.] (Zo["o]l.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of redi[ae], or else cercari[ae] within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.

Meaning of Nurses from wikipedia

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- for Nurses. The registration of nurses by nursing councils or boards began in the early twentieth century. New Zealand registered the first nurse in 1901...
- birth) each year, to mark the contributions that nurses make to society. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has celebrated this day since 1965. In...
- The Nurses may refer to: The Nurses (TV series), a 1962–1965 American primetime medical drama which aired on CBS The Nurses (1965 TV series), a 1965–1967...
- Psychiatric Nurse, a title used in certain other Canadian jurisdictions. All nurses in the province of Ontario are regulated by the College of Nurses of Ontario...
- up nurse or nurses in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A nurse is a healthcare professional. Nurse or nurses may also refer to: Registered nurse, a licensing...
- A wet nurse is a woman who breastfeeds and cares for another's child. Wet nurses are emplo**** if the mother dies, if she is unable to nurse the child...
- nursing and Timeline of nursing history. For nurses in art, film and literature see list of fictional nurses. Lady Harriet Acland (1750–1815), British noblewoman...
- established a "reserve group" of nurses with specific criteria to prepare for ****ure wars. Military nurses are similar to floor nurses in that they spend most...
- National Nurses United (NNU) is the largest organization of registered nurses in the United States. With more than 225,000 members, it is the ****hest-reaching...