Dry Nurse

Word DRY NURSE
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What do we mean by dry nurse?

A nurse who takes care of a baby, but does not breastfeed

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The word "dry-nurse" in example sentences

Father Eustace played the same part in the Monastery as the old general who, in foreign armies, is placed at the elbow of the Prince of the Blood, who nominally commands in chief, on condition of attempting nothing without the advice of his dry-nurse; and he shared the fate of all such dry-nurses, being heartily disliked as well as feared by his principal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Egad I have a dry-nurse too, but I never looked into ❋ Unknown (2005)

All morning with thy dry-nurse; all the evening in formal fine company; and all day long afraid of Old Daddy in England. ❋ Unknown (2005)

My dry-nurse never desires anything of me that is not reasonable, and for my own good; and therefore I like to be with him. ❋ Unknown (2005)

As to Moore, no one now ventured to inquire about him: Mrs. Horsfall had him at dry-nurse: it was she who was to do for him; and the general conjecture now ran that she did for him accordingly. ❋ Unknown (2004)

But Tom had taken it up, and meant to stick to it, and go through with it so as to satisfy himself; in which resolution he was much assisted by the chafing of East and his other old friends, who began to call him "dry-nurse," and otherwise to break their small wit on him. ❋ Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 (1971)

Cripplegate; and her grandmother, for long and long, not only head dry-nurse to one of the noblest families in all England, but _bona fide_ twenty-two stone avoirdupois -- so that it was once proposed, by the undertaker, to bury her at twice! ❋ Various (N/A)

His familiar appeals to the trifling matters of ordinary life, his characters all philosophizing, from the prince to the dry-nurse, his excellent reasons for doing right or wrong, as the case might be, must have been inestimably delightful to the accommodating morals of the Athenians. ❋ 480? BC-406 BC Euripides (N/A)

Mother Church is but a dry-nurse, singing while her infant moans; ❋ Various (N/A)

What man of your acquaintance could turn dry-nurse -- tend even his own babes twelve hours out of the twenty-four? ❋ Various (N/A)

If I have a bilious attack, by all means come and console me; if Poland has a bilious attack, there is no reason why England should step in as dry-nurse; there may be every reason, indeed, why England should stand aloof. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

I don't envy Hignett if he has to dry-nurse the _Gnome's_ commander. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

I ordered Sergeant Bowers to feed my mule; but he said that if I reckoned he went to war to be dry-nurse to a mule, it wouldn't take me very long to find out my mistake. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

The stout old soldier at Candahar waxed wroth at the limpness of his subordinate, and addressed to England a biting letter, ordering peremptorily the latter's prompt advance to Candahar, engaging to dry-nurse him through the Kojuk by a brigade sent down from Candahar for the purpose, and remarking sarcastically, 'I am well aware that war cannot be made without loss; but yet perhaps British troops can oppose ❋ Archibald Forbes (1869)

One would like to know if, apart from my artifices, in circumstances where I do not interfere, the good-natured dry-nurse sometimes burdens herself with a supplementary family; it would also be interesting to learn what comes of this association of lawful offspring and strangers. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

These are the children with ringworm, with rashes, the disfavoured of Bethlehem, who had been hidden in this retired corner with recommendation to their dry-nurse to rock them, to soothe them, to sit on them, if need were, in order to keep them from crying; but whom this country-woman, stupid and inquisitive, had left alone there in order to see the fine carriage standing in the court-yard. ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)

To prune feeble plants and shrubs is like acting the part of dry-nurse to a sickly orphan. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

If my soul be too old to be a mother of goodness, Lord, make it but a dry-nurse. ❋ 1608-1661 (1863)

Honored in their day, not unremembered by a few solitary students of the past, their memories are going sweetly to sleep in the arms of the patient old dry-nurse, whose "blackdrop" is the never-failing anodyne of the restless generations of men. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

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