| 单词 | at nurse |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat nurse a. at nurse: (of a child) in the care or charge of a nurse, esp. a wet nurse. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > baby or infant > [adverb] > suckling at nurseryc1400 at nurse1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 930/2 This Richard Hune had a child at nourse in Midlesex. 1608 Yorkshire Trag. sig. Dv I repent now, that ones left vnkild, My brat at nurse. ?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 71 His wife stayed att Fawley Court the more contentedly being neer her childe att Nurse att Woburne. 1677 Counterfeit Bridegroom i. i. 6 'Tis well known I have three chopping Bastards at Nurse. 1690–1700 Order of Hospitalls sig. Fv Whether the same Childe be..in the House, or at Nurse. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4929/4 An Infant then at Nurse. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. iii. xi. 264 Her Child..was at Nurse at a distant Part of the Town. 1796 Hist. Ned Evans I. 66 A new born son, who was said to have also died at nurse. 1866 W. Collins Armadale II. iii. xv. 110 A woman who took in children at nurse. 1894 G. Moore Esther Waters xxxii. 258 Dulwich..—that's where Jackie was at nurse. a1963 L. MacNeice Coll. Poems (1979) 320 As one feels worse When a tree is cut down,..a child at nurse Weaned. to (also at) nurse ΚΠ 1729 C. Johnson Village Opera i. iii. 21 I have a small Pittance,..industriously collected by taking Land to Nurse, and casting up other People's Accounts. 1759 S. Fielding Hist. Countess of Dellwyn II. iii. x. 107 This he called taking an Estate to nurse. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 115 He has been obliged to..put his estate to nurse. 1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family III. 134 His estate of 1200l. a year went to nurse; and a small allowance from his creditors..remained for the maintenance of his family. 1824 Hist. Gaming Houses 10 in Compl. Hist. Murder Mr. Weare In trust for H.R.H., as the lawyers have it, but which the fashionable world call ‘being at nurse’. 1875 J. Grant One of Six Hundred viii. 65 His father..died in time to let the estates go to nurse during the present man's minority. < as lemmas |
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