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(b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of
the sick or infirm.

2. 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.

3. (Naut.) A lieutenant or first
officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his
place.

4. (Zoöl.) (a) A
peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariæ by
asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
(b) Either one of the nurse sharks.

Nurse shark. (Zoöl.)
(a) A large arctic shark (Somniosus
microcephalus), having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called
also sleeper shark, and ground shark.
(b) 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.

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