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单词 to nurse
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to (also at) nurse
c. figurative. to (also at) nurse: (of land, estates, etc.) placed in the care of trustees. Obsolete.
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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.
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