Crossword clues for nourishing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nourish \Nour"ish\ (n[u^]r"[i^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nourished (n[u^]r"[i^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Nourishing.] [OE. norisen, norischen, OF. nurir, nurrir, norir, F. nourrir, fr. L. nutrire. Cf. Nurse, Nutriment, and see -ish.]
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To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
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To support; to maintain.
Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band.
--Shak. To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues. ``Nourish their contentions.''
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To cherish; to comfort.
Ye have nourished your hearts.
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5. To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
--Chaucer.Nourished up in the words of faith.
--1 Tim. iv. Syn: To cherish; feed; supply. See Nurture.
Nourishing \Nour"ish*ing\, a. Promoting growth; nutritious.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., past participle adjective from nourish (v.).
Wiktionary
a. That provides nourishment; nutritious
WordNet
adj. of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]
Usage examples of "nourishing".
Zogranda, one of their most famous doctors, recommends strips of blubber for infants, as being exceedingly juicy and nourishing.
The animal possesses a vitality superior to any of our later day animals, and if any organism can successfully become the host of a foreign brain, nourishing and cherishing it, the elasmosaurus with its abundant vital forces can do it.
It indicated that Koll was as confident as he appeared to be that he could dispel the doubts Ticos was nourishing in other leading Palachs by proving their prisoner had misinformed them.
The food we eat comes in the form of nice red tomatoes and nourishing rice pilaff and stuff like that.
We filled the molds with water, nutrients, and nourishing electrical currents, then inoculated them with totipotent cells.
That tule is not nourishing enough for me, what with all the hard work I do for the world!
They made camp on the lee of a hill in a pine grove and supped on a meal of dried venison and crue, a tasteless but nourishing waybread, and they took their meal with hearty hot tea.
I had much success that day, returning with a bandicoot, witchetty grubs, two snakes, some honey, a bag of tubers, and some nourishing seeds to chew.
Whilst Astoria demonstrated the nourishing functions of the adjacent blue room, Xaefyer and three of his fellows arrived through the pink.
She kept up with the discussions, but to her this branch of astrophysics was like a French Impressionist painting of a cow: suggestive, artful maybe, but some things never looked quite right and it was in the end not a reliable source of nourishing milk.
Lovers in like manner live on their capital from failure of income: they, too, for the sake of stifling apprehension and piping to the present hour, are lavish of their stock, so as rapidly to attenuate it: they have their fits of intoxication in view of coming famine: they force memory into play, love retrospectively, enter the old house of the past and ravage the larder, and would gladly, even resolutely, continue in illusion if it were possible for the broadest honey-store of reminiscences to hold out for a length of time against a mortal appetite: which in good sooth stands on the alternative of a consumption of the hive or of the creature it is for nourishing.
The sacrament of Baptism is directly ordained for the remission of punishment and guilt: not so the Eucharist, because Baptism is given to man as dying with Christ, whereas the Eucharist is given as by way of nourishing and perfecting him through Christ.
Tending her people, nourishing, guiding, Sharing the wastel and honeydew, she.
These machines were what converted the algae into a vast range of nourishing, flavorsome, and substantial dishes.
Bartlett, who was suspected of Commie sympathies, said darkly that was the gentry all over, kickshaws all the time, and nourishing food only fit for the working classes.