Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 30
Nurse (n.) (Zool.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
Nurse (n.) (Zool.) Either one of the nurse sharks.
Nurse shark. (Zool.) (a) A large arctic shark ({Somniosus microcephalus), having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also sleeper shark, and ground shark.
Nurse shark. (Zool.) (b) A large shark ({Ginglymostoma cirratum), native of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal fins situated behind the ventral fins.
To put to nurse, or To put out to nurse, To send away to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse.
Wet nurse, Dry nurse. See Wet nurse, and Dry nurse, in the Vocabulary.
Nursed (imp. & p. p.) of Nurse
Nursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nurse
Nurse (v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as;
Nurse (v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
Nurse (v. t.) 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.
Nurse (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. "To nurse the saplings tall." -- Milton.
By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion? -- Locke.
Nurse (v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
Nurse (v. t.) 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.
Redia (n.; pl. Redias) (Zool.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It inturn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.
Nurse (n.) One skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician).
Nurse (n.) A woman who is the custodian of children [syn: nanny, nursemaid, nurse].
Nurse (v.) Try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury; "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs".
Nurse (v.) Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment" [syn: harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurse].
Nurse (v.) Serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people.
Nurse (v.) Treat carefully; "He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly".
Nurse (v.) Give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck] [ant: bottlefeed].
Nursehound (n.) (Zool.) See Houndfish.
Nursemaid (n.) A girl or woman employed to attend and care for children.
Nursemaid (n.) A woman who is the custodian of children [syn: nanny, nursemaid, nurse].
Nursepond (n.) A pond where fish are fed. -- Walton.
Nurser (n.) One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
Nurser (n.) A person who treats something carefully; "a great nurser of pennies".
Nurseries (n. pl. ) of Nursery.
Nursery (n.) The act of nursing. [Obs.] "Her kind nursery." -- Shak.
Nursery (n.) The place where nursing is carried on; as:
Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
Nursery (n.) A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.
Nursery (n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.
Nurserymen (n. pl. ) of Nurseryman
Nurseryman (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
Nursing (a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.
Nursling (n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling.
Nurstle (v. t.) To nurse. See Noursle.
Nurture (n.) The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.
Nurture (n.) That which nourishes; food; diet.
Nurtured (imp. & p. p.) of Nurture
Nurturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nurture
Nurture (v. t.) To feed; to nourish.
Nurture (v. t.) To educate; to bring or train up.
Nustle (v. t.) To fondle; to cherish.
Nut (n.) The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
Nut (n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt.
Nut (n.) The tumbler of a gunlock.
Nut (n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
Nutted (imp. & p. p.) of Nut
Nutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nut
Nut (v. i.) To gather nuts.
Nutant (a.) Nodding; having the top bent downward.
Nutation (n.) The act of nodding.
Nutation (n.) A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.
Nutation (n.) The motion of a flower in following the apparent movement of the sun, from the east in the morning to the west in the evening.
Nutation (n.) Circumnutation.
Nutbreaker (n.) The European nuthatch.
Nutbreaker (n.) The nutcracker.
Nut-brown (a.) Brown as a nut long kept and dried.
Nutcracker (n.) An instrument for cracking nuts.
Nutcracker (n.) A European bird (Nucifraga caryocatactes), allied to the magpie and crow. Its color is dark brown, spotted with white. It feeds on nuts, seeds, and insects.
Nutcracker (n.) The American, or Clarke's, nutcracker (Picicorvus Columbianus) of Western North America.
Nutgall (n.) A more or less round gall resembling a nut, esp. one of those produced on the oak and used in the arts. See Gall, Gallnut.
Nuthatch (n.) Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmaea), and others, are American.
Nuthook (n.) A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.
Nuthook (n.) A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors.
Nutjobber (n.) The nuthatch.
Nutlet (n.) A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.
Nutmeg (n.) The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Isla nds, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics.
Nutmegged (a.) Seasoned with nutmeg.
Nutpecker (n.) The nuthatch.
Nutria (n.) The fur of the coypu. See Coypu.
Nutrication (n.) The act or manner of feeding.
Nutrient (a.) Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.
Nutrient (n.) Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth.
Nutriment (n.) That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.
Nutriment (n.) That which promotes development or growth.
Nutrimental (a.) Nutritious.
Nutritial (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, nutrition; nutritious.
Nutrition (n.) In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.
Nutrition (n.) In a more limited sense, the process by which the living tissues take up, from the blood, matters necessary either for their repair or for the performance of their healthy functions.
Nutrition (n.) That which nourishes; nutriment.
Nutrition (n.) [ U ] (C1) The substances that you take into your body as food and the way that they influence your health.
// Good nutrition is essential if patients are to make a quick recovery.
// Improvements in nutrition.
Nutrition (n.) The process of taking in and using food, or the scientific study of this.
// She's a professor of nutrition at Columbia University.
Nutritional (a.) Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.
Nutritious (a.) Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental.
Nutritive (a.) Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.
Nutriture (n.) Nutrition; nourishment.
Nuts (a.) 熱中的,，發狂的，瘋的 Crazy; loony; insane; batty; -- used in a predicate position, ususually in phrases such as to go nuts, went nuts, are you nuts? [slang]
Nuts (interj.) An expression of disapproval, defiance, or displeasure, as in: "Ah, nuts! My knife just broke." [slang]
Nuts (a.) Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats}, {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked} {crackers}, {daft}, {dotty}, {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky}, {kookie}, {loco}, {loony}, {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {round the bend}, {around the bend}, {wacky}, {whacky}].
Nutshell (n.) The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.
Nutshell (n.) Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.
Nutshell (n.) A shell of the genus Nucula.
Nutter (n.) A gatherer of nuts.
Nutting (n.) The act of gathering nuts.
Nutty (a.) Abounding in nuts.
Nutty (a.) Having a flavor like that of nuts; as, nutty wine.
Nux vomica () The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons.
Nuzzied (imp. & p. p.) of Nuzzle
Nuzzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nuzzle
Nuzzle (v. t.) To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
Nuzzle (v. t.) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
Nuzzle (v. i.) To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.
Nuzzle (v. i.) To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.
Nuzzle (v. t.) To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.
Nuzzle (v. t.) To loiter; to idle.
Ny () Not I; nor I.
Ny (a. & adv.) Alt. of Nye
Nye (a. & adv.) Nigh.
Nyas (n.) See Nias.
Nyctalopia (n.) A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.
Nyctalopia (n.) See Moonblink.
Nyctalops (n.) One afflicted with nyctalopia.
Nyctalopy (n.) Same as Nyctalopia.