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nurse definition and meaning
n.
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.
n.
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
n.
A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
n.
A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
n.
Either one of the nurse sharks.
v. t.
To nourish; to cherish; to foster
v. t.
To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
v. t.
To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
v. t.
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.
v. t.
To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
v. t.
To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.
Crossword clues for nurse
- Clinic sister
- Clinic worker
- Essential hospital worker
- Feed (baby)
- Health worker
- Hold carefully
- Hold gently
- Hospital attendant
- Hospital employee
- Hospital sister
- Hospital worker
- Look after
- Look after (invalid)
- Look after (patients)
- Midwife, e.g.
- Sister runs off with sweetheart
- Suckle
- Suckle (infant)
- Tend (the sick)
- Tend in illness
- Tend in sickness
- Tend the sick
- Tend to decoding of runes
- Wait on
- ward attendant
- Ward worker
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