Available Definitions:
1) a. - Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.
2) n. - One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like.
3) n. - A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
4) n. - A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria , and Redia.
5) n. - Either one of the nurse sharks.
6) v. t. - To nourish; to cherish; to foster
7) v. t. - To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
8) v. t. - To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
9) v. t. - 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.
10) v. t. - To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
11) v. t. - To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does.