A nurse.
To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.
I in Ireland nourish a mighty band.
To encourage; to foster; to stimulate
to nourish civility
From Middle English norischen, from Old French nouriss-, stem of one of the conjugated forms of norrir, from Latin nutriō (“to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support”).
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