What is "nursed"

Usage examples of "nursed".

If there was suspicion of irregular conduct in any house where she nursed, she knew nothing about it.

While I nursed my coffee, she sipped at a large cup of warmed milk, explaining that it helped to soothe her bleeding ulcer.

The woman subsequently enjoyed excellent health and, although she had a small ventral hernia, bore and nursed two children.

Up to the eleventh month she was nursed by her mother, and subsequently fed on cabbage, milk, and vegetable soup.

The woman thus affected became pregnant during this time and was happily delivered of an infant, which she nursed herself.

Sir Hans Sloane mentions a lady of sixty-eight who though not having borne a child for twenty years, nursed her grandchildren one after another.

For twenty-two months she nursed the infant, and it thrived as well as its brother, who was nursed by their common mother--in fact, it was even the stronger of the two.

Ford has collected several cases in which lactation was artificially induced by women who, though for some time not having been pregnant themselves, nursed for others.

Again becoming pregnant, she weaned her first child and nursed the other without delay or complication.

The left breast, with which he nursed, afterward retained its unusual size.

She is a gentlewoman by birth, has nursed for me before, and is well up in the special knowledge of mental things which this case requires.