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† ˈnurse-keeper
A sick-nurse. Also fig.
1602Herring Anat. 4 Chattering Char-women and Nurs⁓keepers. 1653Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. viii. 101 When the heart of Man is..tended by those Nurse-Keepers of the Soul, it is not easie for a man to wander. 1656W. Coles Art of Simpling 92 Democritus, when he lay a dying, heard his Nurse-keeper complaine. 1724Lond. Gaz. No. 6250/11 Mary Easton,..Widow and Nursekeeper. 1781C. Johnston Hist. J. Juniper II. 243, I was turned out in the condition you see by my nurse-keeper. |