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Answer for the clue "Nourishing at the breast ", 7 letters:
nursing

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Word definitions for nursing in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, verbal noun from nurse (v.). Meaning "profession of one who nurses the sick" is from 1860.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nursing is a healthcare profession. Nursing may also refer to: The feeding of mammalian young on milk or milk replacement, such as breastfeeding in humans Wet nursing , the act of breastfeeding someone else's child Healing , also known as nursing

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nurse \Nurse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nursed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Nursing .] To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as: To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon. Sons ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm the profession of a nurse nourishing at the breast [syn: breast feeding ]

Usage examples of nursing.

Ray asked Ake, the two of them sitting in the cockpit nursing drinks with Beowulf and Frodo lying at their feet.

Nursing my arm, I looked up through streaming tears at the man behind it and caught my breath, cutting off the noise I was making, almost as if they had also managed to thump me in the solar plexus.

But, of course, there are a great many of the seriously wounded that no amount of aseptic and skilled surgery or nursing can save.

It is an atrophic process, and will end with a catatonic lack of response, incontinence and the need for constant nursing care.

Most of the well-wishers and curious had drifted away when Elizabeth had first shown signs of waking, but he found Axel on the porch, nursing his pipe, and the judge.

COMBINING NURSING WITH BOTTLES Many new mothers will want to nurse their babies as well as feed them from bottles.

The ugly living room, the bedrooms stuffed with bureaus and chairs and blankets and pillows, an aide leaning out of the nursing station talking to Polly, the white chalk in its dish below the blackboard waiting for us to sign ourselves in: home again.

Her eyes had a blindish look as if she were trying to divert her mind from some fear by nursing a hope or a memory.

The bruised leaves applied externally will serve to soften hard breasts early in lactation, and to resolve the glands in nursing, when they become knotty and painful, with a threatened abscess.

Viv had never stopped sucking, even years after she ran off with Ooze, television in one hand, fifth of scotch in the other, leaving Frank with a gnawing hunger that would consume him like a slow fire and would not be satisfied by pizza, and he would retire out of boredom and curiosity to a Nursing Camp with a TV set, a cybersex unit and a Hollywood radiator, until one day when he would escape and journey through furrowed tunnels to the foul nightmare worlds of his imagination realized and manifested, to the uncharted lands beneath the shopping malls, and he would work his way back to thls place, the here and now, wherever that might be, and he would die, in a room filled with hyperactive children and thinking appliances with the cold taste of rubberish pizza still on his lips.

The wing where Davina Graham lived with Sasanov was accepted by the outside nursing staff as reserved for the treatment of violent patients.

CHAPTER V For two days the Bagrees sat nursing their wrath at the reproaches of Dewan Sewlal.

The big-screen TV in the living room turned up at the Dibble household shortly after a similar one had disappeared on its way to the county-run nursing home.

So saying I gave her a kiss which she took very kindly, but she smelt of nursing, which I detested, so I did not go any farther despite her radiant beauty.

Jared wants to fight a cause, let him go busting into all the nursing homes, the clinics that doddle along on what the politicians reluctantly dole out, the street people.