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Nursing

noun

The work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm.

The profession of a nurse.

Nourishing at the breast. Synonym: breast feeding.

Nurse

verb

(past & past part. nursed; pres. part. nursing)

Try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury.

Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings). Synonyms: entertain, harbor, harbour, hold. "Entertain interesting notions" , "Harbor a resentment"

Serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people.

Treat carefully. "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly"

Give suck to. Synonyms: breastfeed, give suck, lactate, suck, suckle, wet-nurse. "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places"

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"Nursing" Quotes from Famous Books

... bestow on their own young. Not only so, but they apparently discover that the methods of feeding, which suit their own larvae, would prove fatal to the guests, and accordingly they change their whole system of nursing" (loc. cit., p. 106). ...

— The Analysis of Mind • Bertrand Russell

... digging up the remote civilization of Little Rivers and putting it in a high scale because they ran across a pot of Mrs. Galway's jam in the ruins—the same hifalutin compliment being your own when you were nursing your wound, ...

— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer

... down the worn stone steps. As we sped seawards across the bleak country, our thoughts flew back to her, and to the little room with the red cross on its casement, wherein, although our prisoners were released, another term of nursing had already begun for her. In contrast with her life of cheerful self-abnegation, ours ...

— A Versailles Christmas-Tide • Mary Stuart Boyd

... the second day of our confinement that a wild, beautiful girl burst into the Calabooza, and, throwing herself into an arch attitude, stood afar off, and gazed at us. She was a heartless one:—tickled to death with Black Dan's nursing his chafed ankle, and indulging in certain moral reflections on the consul and Captain Guy. After laughing her fill at him, she condescended to notice the rest; glancing from one to another in the most methodical ...

— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville

... night. Mary was taken away to Bruxelles. I have seen Mary frequently since. She is in no ways crushed by the event; but while Martha was ill, she was to her more than a mother—more than a sister: watching, nursing, cherishing her so tenderly, so unweariedly. She appears calm and serious now; no bursts of violent emotion; no exaggeration of distress. I have seen Martha's grave—the place where her ashes lie ...

— The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 • Elizabeth Gaskell

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