nursle
English
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editAlteration of nuzzle, after nurse.
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editnursle (third-person singular simple present nursles, present participle nursling, simple past and past participle nursled)
- (now rare, archaic) To nurture, train, raise (a person).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- the late borne childe […] till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, / He noursled vp in life and manners wilde […]