One that cherishes or encourages growth.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
1. The place or apartment in a house appropriated to the care of children.
2. A place where young trees are propagated for the purpose of being transplanted; a plantation of young trees.
3. The place where any thing is fostered and the growth promoted.
4. To see fair Padua, nursery of arts.
5. So we say , a nursery of thieves or of rogues. Ale houses and dram-shops are the nurseries of intemperance.
6. Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven.
7. Taht which forms and educates. Commerce is the nursery of seamen.
8. The act of nursing. [Little used.]
9. That which is the object of a nurse's care.
1. The act of nursing.
2. The place where nursing is carried on
3. The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
4. A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.
5. The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
6. That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
7. That which is nursed.
One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
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