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NUR'SE-MAID, /. A woman-fervant employed ia 
nurfing children. 
NUR'SE-POND, f. A pond for young fifth—Put into 
your breeding-pond three melters for one fpawner 5 but, 
if into a nur/'e-pond, or feeding-pond, then no care is to 
betaken. Walton's Angler. 
NUR'SER, J\ Gne that nurfes. Not ufed: 
See where he lies, inherfed in the arms 
Of the moll bloody nurj'er of his harms. Shahefpeare. 
A promoter; a fomenter. 
NUR'SERY, f. The a 61 or office of nurfing : 
I lov’d her moft, and thought to fet my reft 
On her kind nurfery. Shahefpeare's K. Lear. 
That which is the objeft of a nurfe’s care: 
She went forth among her fruits and flowers, 
To vifit how they profper’d, bud and bloom ; 
Her nurfery; they at her coming fprung, 
And, touch’d by her fair tendance, gladlier grew. Milton. 
A plantation of young trees to be tranfplanted to other 
ground. See Horticulture, vol. x. p. 409..— Your 
nurfery of ftocks ought to be in a more barren ground 
than the ground is whereunto you remove them. Bacon. 
—Place where young children arenurfed and brought-up. 
—You fee before you the fpeftacle of a Plantagenet, w’ho 
hath been carried from the nurfery to the fanftuary, from 
the fanftuary to the direful prifon, from the prifon to 
the hand of the cruel tormentor, and from that hand to 
the wide wildernefs; for fo the world hath been to me. 
Bacon. 
Forthwith, the devil did appear, 
Not in the fliape in which he plies 
At mifs’s elbow when (he lies ; 
Or Hands before the nuffiery-doors, 
To take the naughty boy that roars. Prior. 
The place or ftate where any thing is foftered or brought- 
up, from a nurfery of children, or whence any thing is to 
be removed from a nurfery of trees.—A luxurious court 
is the nurfery of difeales; it breeds them, it encourages, 
nouriffies, and entertains, them. L'Ef range. 
To fee fair Padua, nurfery of arts, 
X am arriv’d from fruitful Lombardy. Shahefpeare. 
NUR'SING, f The aft and praftice of attending chil¬ 
dren from infancy. The following judicious obfervations, 
and popular direftions, are extrafted from the 6th vol. of 
the Annual Regifter. 
The child ffiould be laid (for the firft month) upon a 
thin mattrefs, rather longer than itfelf, which the nurfe 
will keep upon her lap, that the child may always lie 
ftraight, and only fit up as the nurfe Hants the mattrefs. 
To fet a child quite upright, before the end of the firft 
month, hurts the eyes, by making the white part of the 
eye appear below the upper eyelid. Afterwards, the nurfe 
will begin to fet it up, and dance it, by degrees. The 
child mull be kept as dry as poffible. 
The clothing ffiould be very light, and not much longer 
than the child, that the legs may be got at with eafe, in 
order to have them often rubbed in the day with a warm 
hand or flannel, and in particular the infide of them. 
Rubbing.a child all over, takes off feurf, and makes the 
blood circulate. The one bread: fliould be rubbed with 
the hands one way, and the other the other way, night 
and morning at lead. The ankle-bones and infide of the 
knees ffiould be rubbed twice a-day ; this will ftrengthen 
thofe parts, and make the child ftretch its knees and keep 
them flat, which is the foundation of amereft and grace¬ 
ful perfon. 
A nurfe ought to keep a child as little in her arms as 
poffible, left the legs ffiould be cramped, and the toes 
turned inwards. Let her always keep the child’s legs 
loofe. The oftener the pofture is changed, the better. 
Tolling a child about, and exercifing it in the open air in 
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fine weather, is of the great eft fervice. In cities, children 
are not to be kept in hot rooms, but to have as much air 
as poffible. 
Want of exercife, is the caufe of large heads, weak and 
knotted joints, a contrafted bread, which occalions coughs 
and fluffed lungs, an ill-ffiaped perfon, and waddling gait, 
belides a numerous train of other ills. 
The child’s fleffi is to be kept perfeftly clean, by fre¬ 
quently waffiing its limbs, and likewife its neck and ears ; 
beginning with warm water, till, by degrees, it will not 
only bear, but like, to be waffied with cold water. 
Riling early in the morning, is- good for all children, 
provided they awake of themfelves, which they generally 
do ; but they are never to be awaked out of their deep; 
and, as foon as poffible, to be brought to regular fleeps. 
When laid in bed or cradle, their legs are always to be 
laid ftraight. 
Girls might be trained to the proper management of 
children, if a premium were given in free-fchools, work- 
houfes, &c. to thofe that brought-up the fineft child to 
one year old. Young girls, thus encouraged, would 
make the very belt of nurfes. 
A principal -thing to be always attended to is, to give 
young children conftant exercife, and to keep them in a 
proper pofture. 
With regard to the child’s drefs in the day, let it be a 
ffiirt; a petticoat of fine flannel, two or three inches 
longer than the child’s feet, with a dimity top (commonly 
called a bodice-coat), to tie behind; over that a furcingle 
made of fine buckram, two inches broad, covered over 
with fatin or fine ticken, with a ribbon fattened to it to 
tie it on, which anfwers every purpole of flays, and has 
none of their inconveniences. Over this put a robe, or a 
flip and frock, or whatever you like belt; provided it is 
faftened behind, and not much longer than the child’s 
feet, that their motions may be ftriftly obferved. 
The child ffiould always lie in the fame bed with the 
nurfe or mother, and not be banilhed to a fixed cot or a 
fwinging cradle. If the mother will not incommode her- 
felf fo much as to attend to her infant’s wants in the 
night, (and, by judicious arrangement, children are foon 
brought to regular habits,) ffie ffiould at once totally re¬ 
fig n the care of it to one who will perform that for money 
which ffie will not for affeftion. 
NUR'SINGDY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal s 
twenty miles eaft-north-eaft of Dacca. 
NURSINGPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Gurry 
Mundella: thirty-five miles weft of Gurrah. 
NURSINGPOU'R, a town of Bengaleight miles eaft 
of Doefa.'—Another, thirty-fix miles fouth of Dacca. 
NUR'SLING, f. One nurfed-up; a fondling.—I was 
his nurfing once, and choice delight. Milton. 
In their tender nonage, while they fpread 
Their fpringing leaves, and lift their infant head, 
Indulge their childhood, and the nurf ing fpare. Dryden. 
NURTIN'GEN, a town of Wurtemberg, on the Nec- 
kar. The hofpital, founded in 1481, is laid to be the 
richeft foundation in the whole duchy. It is fourteen 
miles fouth-eaft of Stuttgart, and fixty eaft of Sfralburg, 
Lat. 48. 36. N. Ion. 9. 25. E. 
NURTURE, f. [contrafted from nourriture, Fr.] 
Food ; diet: 
For this did the angel twice defeend, 
Ordain’d thy nurture holy, as of a plant 
Seleft and facred ? Milton's S. A. 
Education ; inftitution.—Ye fathers, provoke not your 
children to wrath ; but bring them up in the nurture and 
admonition of the Lord. Eph. vi. 4. 
The thorny point 
Of bare dill refs, hath ta’en from me the (hew 
Of fmooth civility 5 yet am I inland bred. 
And know fome nurture. Shahefpeare. 
To NURTURE, v.a. To educate; to train; to bring- 
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