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An infant considered in relation to its nurse
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nursling
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nursling \Nurs"ling\, n. [Nurse + -ling.] One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling. I was his nursling once, and choice delight. --Milton.
WordNet
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n. an infant considered in relation to its nurse [syn: nurseling , suckling ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also nurseling , "object of a nurse's care," 1550s, from nurse (v.) + -ling .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Nursling is a village in Hampshire , England, situated in the parish of Nursling and Rownhams , about 6 kilometres north-west of the city of Southampton . Formerly called Nhutscelle (in an 8th-century life of Saint Boniface ), then Nutshalling or Nutshullyng ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A young child or animal being nursed n. A young child or animal being nursed
Usage examples of nursling.
Let the laity undergo the judgment of the secular arm, that either sewn up in sacks they may be carried out to Neptune, or planted in the earth may fructify for Pluto, or may be offered amid the flames as a fattened holocaust to Vulcan, or at least may be hung up as a victim to Juno: while our nursling at a single reading of the book of life is handed over to the custody of the Bishop, and rigour is changed to favour, and the forum being transferred from the laity, death is routed by the clerk who is the nursling of books.
The many meanings glistening up When Nature to her nurslings kind, Hands them the fruitage and the cup!
Inside this, a young male Ykx in his late tweens packing for his wingride, a nursling cub crawling about on the floor dragging with her a much chewed rubbery grubber doll.
How could I leave to any one else the privilege and delight, as well as the responsibility, of blowing on the spoonful of soup which is too hot for my little Nais, my nursling of seven months ago, who still remembers my breast?
And she a nursling of captivity Knew nought beyond those walls, nor what such change might be.
In Venus Jove did soft desire awaken, That by her own enchantments overtaken, She might, no more from human union free, Burn for a nursling of mortality.
St Cyr, shortly after hearing that her beloved Due de Maine, her pet nursling of other days, had been arrested and flung into prison.
Idris, the princely born, nursling of wealth and luxury, should have come through the tempestuous winter-night from her regal abode, and standing at my lowly door, conjure me to fly with her through darkness and storm--was surely a dream--again her plaintive tones, the sight of her loveliness assured me that it was no vision.
Child of the sun, and nursling of the tropics, it would expire in these climes.
As yet the mind alone had suffered--could I for ever put off the time, when the delicate frame and shrinking nerves of my child of prosperity, the nursling of rank and wealth, who was my companion, should be invaded by famine, hardship, and disease?
Purse to prevent her former nursling from painting wild imaginative subjects not at all suitable for a young lady of gentle birth.
He is trying to make a sword for his nursling, who is now big enough to take the field against Fafnir.
O gracious love of books, which by the grace of baptism transformed the child of Gehenna and nursling of Tartarus into a Son of the Kingdom!
I took Poinsinet home to supper, and the poor nursling of the muses ate for four.
So Nimue had not been able to establish full control of this nursling of hers.