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Nurse, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Nursed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Nursing.] 1. To nourish; to cherish; to
foster; as: (a) To nourish at the breast;
to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. (b)
To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to
attend upon.

Sons wont to nurse their parents in old
age.

Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore,

And nursed his youth along the marshy shore.

2. To bring up; to raise, by care, from a
weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to
plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by,
attention. "To nurse the saplings tall."
Milton.

By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so
uncontrolled a dominion?

3. To manage with care and economy, with a
view to increase; as, to nurse our national
resources.


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