nurser

Definition of Nurser in English :

1. nurser

a person who treats something carefully

Example Sentences:
'a great nurser of pennies'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Nurser

noun

1.

a person who or that which nurtures or looks after or treats carefully

most of the nursers came from an agency and were changing daily

2.

a baby's bottle

I bought my first nurser in 1972 for only 50 cents. I've just concentrated on baby bottles because I think they're so wonderful.

n.

1. A person trained to provide medical care for the sick or disabled, especially one who is licensed and works in a hospital or physician's office.

2.

a. A person employed to take care of a young child.

b. A woman employed to suckle children other than her own; a wet nurse.

3. One that serves as a nurturing or fostering influence or means: "Town life is the nurse of civilization" (C.L.R. James).

4. Zoology A worker ant or bee that feeds and cares for the colony's young.

v. nursed, nurs·ing, nurs·es

v.tr.

1. To serve as a nurse for: nursed the patient back to health.

2. To cause or allow to take milk from the breast or teat: a mother nursing her baby; whales nursing their young.

3. To try to cure by special care or treatment: nurse a cough with various remedies.

4. To treat carefully, especially in order to prevent pain: He nursed his injured knee by shifting his weight to the other leg.

5. To manage or guide carefully; look after with care; foster: nursed her business through the depression. See Synonyms at nurture.

6. To bear privately in the mind: nursing a grudge.

7. To consume slowly, especially in order to conserve: nursed one drink all evening.

v.intr.

1. To serve as a nurse.

2.

a. To take milk from the breast or teat; suckle: The baby is nursing. Puppies nurse for a few weeks.

b. To feed an offspring from the breast or teat: a mother who's nursing; what to feed cows when they're nursing.