Crossword clues for wet nurse
wet nurse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nurse \Nurse\ (n[^u]rs), n. [OE. nourse, nurice, norice, OF. nurrice, norrice, nourrice, F. nourrice, fr. L. nutricia nurse, prop., fem. of nutricius that nourishes; akin to nutrix, -icis, nurse, fr. nutrire to nourish. See Nourish, and cf. Nutritious.]
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One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as:
A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own.
A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm.
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One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise.
--Burke. (Naut.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
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(Zo["o]l.)
A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercari[ae] by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
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Either one of the nurse sharks. Nurse shark. (Zo["o]l.)
A large arctic shark ( Somniosus microcephalus), having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also sleeper shark, and ground shark.
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A large shark ( Ginglymostoma cirratum), native of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal fins situated behind the ventral fins.
To put to nurse, or To put out to nurse, to send away to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse.
Wet nurse, Dry nurse. See Wet nurse, and Dry nurse, in the Vocabulary.
Wet nurse \Wet" nurse`\ A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse.
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A woman hired to suckle another woman's child. 2 (context figuratively by extension English) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care. n. 1 A woman hired to suckle another woman's child. 2 (context figuratively by extension English) Someone who treats someone else with excessive care. vb. (context transitive English) To act as a wet nurse (in either sense.)
WordNet
Wikipedia
A wet nurse is a woman who breast feeds and cares for another's child. Wet nurses are employed when the mother is unable or chooses not to nurse the child herself. Wet-nursed children may be known as "milk-siblings", and in some cultures the families are linked by a special relationship of milk kinship. Mothers who nurse each other's babies are engaging in a reciprocal act known as cross-nursing or co-nursing.
Usage examples of "wet nurse".
The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her while the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy's little red and wrinkled soles and palms.
I am in charge, of course, and I want a wet nurse for him _at once_.
I had only sensual memories, of Gloria stripping quickly her breasts seemingly pumped up like muscles with 'roids the nipples hard as if her spare job were as a wet nurse to a day care center and then before I could make a move she was rolling her leg over mine so that I was in her almost before I knew it was her--I had the sense that she had learned this as a preemptive strike against an impotent male since you'd have to deflate quick to avoid being in there--and the rest being bliss but for its lightness, as if it never made it to the engram stage of my biochemical memory.
Given the matchup of a Twentieth Century male classics professor versus a Trojan wet nurse circa 1200 b.
She'd earned money and food as a wet nurse on her way to Peking, but for the past day and a half she hadn't found anyone with a baby that needed to nurse.