See Also: dry nurse(medicine)
dry-nurse(dictionary)
nurse(1)(dictionary)
wet nurse(dictionary)
wet-nurse(dictionary)
nurse(2)(dictionary)
nurse(dictionary)
Nurse(medicine)
wet nurse(medicine)
Registered nurse(health)

nurse(2) (iou)



nurse noun2. Also nuss, nusse. L15.
[Perh. var. of HUSS, with added n from misdivision of an (cf. newt); later assim. to NURSE noun1.]
Any of various dogfishes and sharks. Also nurse-fish.
grey nurse: see GREY adjective.
Comb.: nurse-fish: see above; nurse hound any of several dogfishes, esp. the large-spotted dogfish, Scyliorhinus stellaris; nurse shark a broad-headed brownish shark, Ginglymostoma cirratum, of warm, mainly Atlantic, waters.