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nurseling

nurseling \nurseling\ n. An infant considered in relation to its nurse.

Syn: nursling, suckling.

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nurseling

n. (alternative form of nursling English)

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nurseling

n. an infant considered in relation to its nurse [syn: nursling, suckling]

Usage examples of "nurseling".

In their entrusted nurseling know them one: Like a brave vessel under press of steam, Abreast the winds and tides, on angry seas, Plucked by the heavens forlorn of present sun, Will drive through darkness, and, with faith supreme, Have sight of haven and the crowded quays.

Near the foot of the falls, where the water broadened into a pool among the rocks, the tall trees grew in a straggling circle round an inner group of four, marking the quarters of the moon, where the effigies of the Divine Child, Hyacinthos, nurseling of Artemis, were hung at the time of the full moon.

Brixia guessed Kuniggod had had her own secrets which she, her nurseling, had never even thought existed.

Bloom stays with nurse a thought to send a kind word to happy mother and nurseling up there.

He had rescued her nurseling from a barrenness that could only reproach her, no matter what else she had achieved.

An Alanti shadi, pale hair and smile vaguely familiar, slapped his arm and called him a warm-weather nurseling, and their friends had to keep them apart.

Miss Trent was at liberty to instruct her nurseling, neither her advice nor her assistance was required when Miss Charlotte was feeling poorly.

There was a certain quality of ageless dreaming about the Peloponnese that rendered the present irrelevant, as if the gods themselves were mere nurselings compared to the generations of men who had lived here.

She used to walk up to the postbox with her letters, a great correspondence with her nurselings all over the world, more than a dozen of them, I should think.

There was a certain quality of ageless dreaming about the Peloponnese that rendered the present irrelevant, as if the gods themselves were mere nurselings compared to the generations of men who had lived here.

Mevva, Vvoks ancient, one-eared cub-trainer, still loved to freeze the hearts of newly emerged nurselings with the story of how Seska had killed two successive cublings in the same afternoon when they failed to respond appropriately to direct orders.