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Dry Nurse

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Noun

1. dry nurse

a nurse who cares for but does not suckle an infant

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dry Nurse

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noun

1.

a nurse who cares for a child without suckling it

Compare wet nurse

verb dry-nurse

2.

to care for (a baby or young child) without suckling

verb (transitive)

to care for (a baby or young child) without suckling

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Dry Nurse

see synonyms of dry nurse

a nurse who takes care of a baby but does not breast-feed it

see also wet nurse

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Dry Nurse

see synonyms of dry nurse

n.

A nurse employed to care for but not breast-feed an infant.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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