drynurse

See also: dry nurse and dry-nurse

English

Etymology

dry +‎ nurse

Verb

drynurse (third-person singular simple present drynurses, present participle drynursing, simple past and past participle drynursed)

  1. To feed, attend, and bring up without suckling.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for drynurse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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