dry nurse (English, verb)
expansion: dry nurse (third-person singular simple present dry nurses, present participle dry nursing, simple past and past participle dry nursed)
Senses:
glosses: To feed, attend, and bring up without suckling.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of an inferior officer: to carry on the duty on board ship, due to the captain's ignorance of seamanship.
tags: archaic
slang
Forms:
form: dry nurses
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dry nursing
tags: participle
present
form: dry nursed
tags: participle
past
form: dry nursed
tags: past