Vocabulary : Nur to Nursemaid

Nur : A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey.
Nuragh : One of the prehistoric towerlike structures found in Sardinia.
Nuraghe : Alt. of Nuragh
Nurl : To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl.
Nurled : of Nurl
Nurling : of Nurl
Nurse : One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm. ;; One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. ;; A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place. ;; A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia. ;; Either one of the nurse sharks. ;; To nourish; to cherish; to foster ;; To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. ;; To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon. ;; 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 manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nur
Nursed : of Nurse
Nursehound : See Houndfish.
Nursemaid : A girl employed to attend children.
Next : Nursepond, Nurser, Nurseries, Nursery, Nurseryman, Nurserymen, Nursing, Nursling, Nurstle, Nurture
Previous : Nunnation, Nunneries, Nunnery, Nunnish, nuns, Nup, Nuphar, Nupson, Nuptial, Nuptials
Index : Sanjeev.NET : Vocabulary
Sanjeev.NET Poetry Archive | Sanjeev.NET Quotations Archive | Sanjeev.NET Scrabble Lists | Sanjeev.NET Poetry Archive | Sanjeev.NET Trivial Trivia | Pablo Picasso Gallery | Paul Klee Gallery | Yousef Karsh Gallery | Chuck Close Gallery | Dale Chihuly Gallery | Annie Leibowitz Gallery | Ansel Adams Gallery | Vincent Van Gogh Gallery | Chihuly at Union Station | Pieter Bruegel |