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Nursing - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Nursing : (noun)
1: the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm
2: the profession of a nurse
3: nourishing at the breast [syn: breast feeding]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Nursing : \Nurs"ing\, a.
Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast;
as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Nursing : Nursing: 1) Profession concerned with the provision of services essential to the maintenance and restoration of health by attending the needs of sick persons. 2) Feeding a infant at the {
breast .
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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