Nurse (n.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
Nurse (n.) Either one of the nurse sharks.
Nursed (imp. & p. p.) of Nurse
Nursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nurse
Nurse (v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foster
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.
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.
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.
Nursehound (n.) See Houndfish.
Nursemaid (n.) A girl employed to attend children.
Nursepond (n.) A pond where fish are fed.
Nurser (n.) One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
Nurseries (pl. ) of Nursery
Nursery (n.) The act of nursing.
Nursery (n.) The place where nursing is carried on
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 (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 Islands, 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.
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.
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.