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▸ noun:  A person trained to provide care for the sick.
▸ noun:  A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
▸ noun:  (figurative) One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
▸ noun:  (horticulture) A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
▸ noun:  A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A wet nurse.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To treat kindly and with extra care.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To manage with care and economy.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To drink slowly, to make it last.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To foster, to nourish.
▸ verb:  To hold closely to one's chest
▸ verb:  (billiards, transitive) To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
▸ noun:  A nurse shark or dogfish.
▸ noun:  A surname.

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