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nursing 音标拼音: [n'ɚsɪŋ] n. 看护,养育 看护,养育 nursing n 1: the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm 2: the profession of a nurse 3: nourishing at the breast [ synonym: { nursing}, { breast feeding}] 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]
Nursing \ Nurs" ing\, a. Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant. [ 1913 Webster]
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