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ˈfoster-nurse
[f. foster n.1]
A nurse who brings up another's child as her own.
1607Wilkins Miseries Inforst Marr. i. B iij, Your hands haue bin to me like bounties purse, Neuer shut vp, your selfe my foster-Nurse. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. 245 The foster nurse first chanted the spell over the cradle.
fig.1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. ii. 40 Fiue hundred Crownes..Which I did store to be my foster Nurse. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets x. 311 In the North nature is rather an awful mother than a kind foster-nurse and friend of man. |