'Nursing' definitions:
Definition of 'nursing'
(from WordNet)
noun
The work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm
noun
The profession of a nurse
noun
Nourishing at the breast [syn: nursing, breast feeding]
Definition of 'Nursing'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion? --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. --A. Trollope. [1913 Webster]
- To nurse billiard balls, to strike them gently and so as to keep them in good position during a series of caroms. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nursing'
From: GCIDE
- Nursing \Nurs"ing\, a. Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'Nursing'
- Nurse,
- Nursed,
- Dry nurse,
- Foster nurse,
- Monthly nurse,
- Nurse shark,
- Nursing bottle,
- To put out to nurse,
- To put to nurse,
- Wet nurse,
- associate in nursing,
- graduate nurse,
- head nurse,
- nurse clinician,
- nurse log,
- nurse practitioner,
- nurse's aide,
- nursing aide,
- nursing care,
- nursing home,
- nursing school,
- practical nurse,
- registered nurse,
- school of nursing,
- scrub nurse,
- student nurse,
- trained nurse,
- visiting nurse,
- To nurse billiard balls,
- bachelor of arts in nursing,
- dry-nurse,
- foster-nurse,
- licensed practical nurse,
- nurse-midwife,
- wet-nurse,
- nurse-patient relation