dry nurse

See also: drynurse and dry-nurse

English

Noun

dry nurse (plural dry nurses)

1. A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand, distinguished from a wet nurse, who suckles it.

Translations

a nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand

• Irish: banaltra f, cailín páistí m
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• Scottish Gaelic: muime-altram f

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dry nurse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)