From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nurse \Nurse\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
nursed \nursed\ adjective fed mother's milk from the breast; -- of an infant.
Syn: suckled, breast-fed. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: (of an infant) breast-fed [syn: {suckled}]
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