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Nursing Definition | 2. | a woman who has the general care of a child or children; dry nurse. | | 3. | a woman employed to suckle an infant; wet nurse. | | 4. | any fostering agency or influence. | | 5. | Entomology. a worker that attends the young in a colony of social insects. | | 6. | Billiards. the act of maintaining the position of billiard balls in preparation for a carom. | –verb (used with object) | 7. | to tend or minister to in sickness, infirmity, etc. | | 8. | to try to cure (an ailment) by taking care of oneself: to nurse a cold. | | 9. | to look after carefully so as to promote growth, development, etc.; foster; cherish: to nurse one's meager talents. | | 10. | to treat or handle with adroit care in order to further one's own interests: to nurse one's nest egg. | | 11. | to use, consume, or dispense very slowly or carefully: He nursed the one drink all evening. | | 12. | to keep steadily in mind or memory: He nursed a grudge against me all the rest of his life. | | 13. | to suckle (an infant). | | 14. | to feed and tend in infancy. | | 15. | to bring up, train, or nurture. | | 16. | to clasp or handle carefully or fondly: to nurse a plate of food on one's lap. | | 17. | Billiards. to maintain the position of (billiard balls) for a series of caroms. | –verb (used without object) | 18. | to suckle a child, esp. one's own. | | 19. | (of a child) to suckle: The child did not nurse after he was three months old. | | 20. | <
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Shoe Definition–noun | 1. | an external covering for the human foot, usually of leather and consisting of a more or less stiff or heavy sole and a lighter upper part ending a short distance above, at, or below the ankle. | | 2. | an object or part resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. | | 3. | a horseshoe or a similar plate for the hoof of some other animal. | | 4. | a ferrule or the like, as of iron, for protecting the end of a staff, pole, etc. | | 6. | the outer casing of a pneumatic automobile tire. | | 7. | a drag or skid for a wheel of a vehicle. | | 8. | a part having a larger area than the end of an object on which it fits, serving to disperse or apply its weight or thrust. | | 9. | the sliding contact by which an electric car or locomotive takes its current from the third rail. | | 10. | Civil Engineering. | a. | a member supporting one end of a truss or girder in a bridge. | | b. | a hard and sharp foot of a pile or caisson for piercing underlying soil. | | | 11. | a small molding, as a quarter round, closing the angle between a baseboard and a floor. | | 12. | the outwardly curved portion at the base of a downspout. | | 13. | a piece of iron or stone, sunk into the ground, against which the leaves of a gateway are shut. | | 14. | a device on a camera that permits an accessory, as a flashgun, to be attached. | | 15. | a band of iron on the bottom of the runner of a sleigh. | | 16. | Cards. dealing box. | |
| 17. | Furniture. | a. | a cuplike metal piece for protecting the bottom of a leg. | | b. | a fillet beneath an ornamental foot, as a pad or scroll foot. | | | 18. | Printing. a box into which unusable type is thrown. | | 19. | a chute conveying grain to be ground into flour. | | 21. | Nautical. a thickness of planking covering the bottom of the keel of a wooden vessel to protect it against rubbing. | –verb (used with object) | 22. | to provide or fit with a shoe or shoes. | | 23. | to protect or arm at the point, edge, or face with a ferrule, metal plate, or the like. | —Idioms | 24. | drop the other shoe, to complete an action or enterprise already begun. | | 25. | fill someone's shoes, to take the place and assume the obligations of another person: She felt that no stepmother could ever hope to fill her late mother's shoes. | | 26. | in someone's shoes, in a position or situation similar to that of another: I wouldn't like to be in his shoes. | | 27. | the shoe is on the other foot, the circumstances are reversed; a change of places has occurred: Now that we are rich an
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