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(plural nurses)    1. (archaic) A wet-nurse.     They hired a
nurse to care for their young boy   3. A person trained to
provide care for the sick.     The nurse made her rounds through
the hospital ward     • Burke       the nurse of manly sentiment
and heroic enterprise  Usage notes[edit]    • The noun nurse, in
its current senses, does not perforce refer to a woman, and in
fact, it frequently refers to a man; nonetheless, many speakers
apparently consider female nurses to be the default case. Such
speakers sometimes use locutions such as male nurse in reference
to a male nurse, even when the nurse's maleness is already clear
from context; for example, the phrasing "he was a male nurse" is
quite well attested, despite its seeming redundancy.        1.
to breast feed   2. to care for the sick     She nursed him back
to health.   3. to treat kindly and with extra care     She
nursed the roseb