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 nurse our national resources.

Either one of the nurse sharks.

To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid;
to attend upon.

To nourish; to cherish; to foster

A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces
cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.

One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow,
trains, fosters, or the like.

i. hemşire, hastabakıcı. John works as a nurse. (John hastabakıcı olarak çalışıyor.)

A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander
when the captain is unfit for his place.

To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as
an infant.