Word Finder - nursery

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A place where nursing or the raising of children is carried on.

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A place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.

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Something which educates and nurtures.

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Commerce is the nursery of seamen.

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Short for nursery cannon.

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Someone or something that is nursed; a nursling.

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The act of nursing or rearing.

You've had the nursery ready for him a long time.

He went on tiptoe to the nursery door and opened it.

One of the girls who watched the babies in the nursery was ill that morning, so Carmen volunteered to help.

For planting against walls, trees which have been trained for two years in the nursery are preferred, but maiden trees can be very successfully introduced, and by liberal treatment may be speedily got to a fruiting state.

You'd be in the nursery while I was in church?

Dairying and the growing of small fruits are important industries in the surrounding region; and there is a large nursery here.

The brilliant success of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, in which Wagnerian technique is applied to the diatonic style of nursery songs with a humorous accuracy undreamed of by Wagner's imitators, points a moral which would have charmed Wagner himself; but until the revival of some rudiments of musical common sense becomes widespread, there is little prospect of the influence of Wagner's harmonic style being productive of anything better than nonsense.

Mrs. Keller and I watched the nursery comedy from the door.

Nursery and market gardening, largely under glass, brickmaking and saw-mills are the chief industries of Cheshunt.

The ancient Banbury Cross, celebrated in a familiar nursery rhyme, was destroyed by Puritans in 1610.

The seed is sown in nursery beds, and the plants set out in the field later.

The work on the nursery became work on Destiny's new room.

She added, Carry Molly up to the nursery; there's a cot in there.

The young tree is, in many cases, procured when it has been trained for two or three years in the nursery; but it is generally better to begin with a maiden plant - that is, a plant of the first year after it has been budded.

The surrounding country is fertile and welltimbered, and there is a government plantation and nursery in connexion with the forests department.

These become well rooted in about a twelvemonth, and then, after pruning, are bedded out in the nursery for two or three years.

It was as a weapon of war, as well as a nursery of learning, that Frederick William III.

The expenses in a rural parish are defrayed by means of a rate raised with, and as part of, the poor rate, with a qualification to the effect that agricultural land, market gardens and nursery grounds are to be assessed to the rate at one-third only of their rateable value.

And she would go to the nursery to nurse Petya, her only boy.

Carefully consider where to place your crib in your baby's nursery.

Whether you're looking for something different or need a specific size to fit in your nursery, this sort of crib could be the answer.

Dr. Seuss is a great nursery theme for parents who are tired of the same old pastel nursery décor.

Work continued on the nursery on weekends when Alex was home.

The mother arrived a few minutes later and as Carmen finished cleaning up the nursery, Mums and a few other women walked in.

He had swallowed pride when he found the pregnancy test strip, and then again when she wanted to work in the nursery at church.

It was time to plan the nursery and shop for clothes, but that could wait.

His camp was a school of chivalry, his court a nursery of poets and artists.

The leading industries comprise manufactures of tweeds, hosiery, clogs, baskets and leather, besides the timber trade, nursery gardening and the making of machinery and iron implements.

The state maintains a crop pest commission, the duties of which include the inspection of all nursery stock sold in the state.

Among the other manufactures are food preparations, wooden ware, wagons and carriages, stoves and furnaces, boots and shoes, tobacco and cigars, flour, candy, gloves, bricks, tile and pottery, furniture, paper boxes and firearms. Utica is a shipping point for the products of a fertile agricultural region, from which are exported dairy products (especially cheese), nursery products, flowers (especially roses), small fruits and vegetables, honey and hops.

There are also flour mills, breweries, important printing works, vinegar works and, in the vicinity, nursery gardens.

Among its institutions are the Ferguson Library (1882; with 16,000 volumes in 1909), several private schools, a Y.M.C.A., the Stamford Hospital (private, 1893), two private sanatoria, the Convent of our Lady of Lourdes, St John's Church House, a day nursery (1902), with dispensary and kindergarten, and the Stamford Children's Home (1895).

The state has made great advances, too, in the production of flowers, ornamental plants, nursery products, fruits, vegetables, poultry and eggs.

The industries include distilling and brewing, nursery gardening, tanning, saw and flour mills, iron-foundries and manufactures of woollens, tweeds and plaiding, and the quarrying of sandstone.

Transplant from the nursery to their final sites annuals sown in autumn, with biennials and herbaceous plants.

Sow annuals for succession in the last week, also biennials and perennials in the nursery compartment, for planting out next year.

Sometimes the plants are grown in the nursery for a whole year or more and put out during the cold weather.

The work which had been begun in the nursery had been completed by the university.

As a rule terrestrial spiders guard the cocoon in the permanent burrow, as in the trap-door spiders, or in the silken retreat which acts as a temporary nursery, as in the Salticidae.

The sale of nursery products, more than one-half of which were grown in Chester and Montgomery counties, amounted in 1899 to $541,032, and although this was less than one-third that of New York it was exceeded in only three other states.

After they have ripened in connexion with the parent bulb, the offsets are taken off, stored in appropriate places, and at the proper season planted out in nursery beds.

However, if you are instead striving to make a comfortable and welcoming environment for your baby, allow yourself to understand the fact your infant simply will not care about designer furniture or legendary nursery wall tapestries.

The flower-gardener should have a small nursery, or reserve garden, for the propagation of the finer plants, to be transferred into the borders as often as is required.

A new race of politicians was springing up. Since 1719, when the influence of the few great territorial families had been merged in a multitude of needy gentlemen, the first estate had become the nursery and afterwards the stronghold of an opposition at once noble and democratic which found its natural leaders in such men as Count Carl Gyllenborg and Count Carl Gustaf Tessin.

The scenery is quiet in its character, but the gravel hills are often prominent features, as at Harrow and in the northern suburbs of London; the country is now mainly under grass or occupied with market and nursery gardens, and many parts, of which Epping Forest is a fine example, are still densely wooded, the oak being the prevailing tree.

These properties include tithes, tithe commutation rent charge, land used as arable, meadow or pasture ground only, or as woodlands, market gardens or nursery grounds, orchards, allotments, any land covered with water such as the reservoir of a waterworks company, or used only as a canal or towing-path of the same, or as a railway constructed under the powers of any Act of Parliament for public conveyance.

The baby Prince Nicholas lived with his wet nurse and nurse Savishna in the late princess' rooms and Princess Mary spent most of the day in the nursery, taking a mother's place to her little nephew as best she could.

Another good option includes pictures, signs, and posters that feature the baby's name along with some type of character or design that matches the nursery theme.

Nursery bedding can also be personalized, such as the crib sheets and changing table cover.

In fact, you may discover that the new parents love the blanket or quilt so much that they use it as a wall hanging to decorate the nursery.