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A wet nurse.
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A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
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They hired a nurse to care for their young boy.
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A person trained to provide care for the sick.
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The nurse made her rounds through the hospital ward.
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One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
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Eton College has been called "the chief nurse of England's statesmen".
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A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
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A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
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A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
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A nurse shark.