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Definition of Foster-nurse
1. Noun. A nurse who raises another woman's child as her own.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foster-nurse
Literary usage of Foster-nurse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Rome by Thomas Arnold (1853)
"The tribuneship was the foster nurse of Roman liberty, and without its care that
liberty never would have grown to maturity. What evils it afterwards ..."
2. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"Indolence is the foster-nurse of the hysterical temperament, and gives every
opportunity for any accidental circumstance to beget the worst results of ..."
3. The Antiquities of Greece by George Friedrich Schömann (1880)
"The proper name far the foster-nurse, ... of whom thia last expression is used,
can be regarded as a foster-nurse, is not credible, for the simple reason ..."
4. The Greyhound in 1864: Being the Second Edition of a Treatise on the Art of by John Henry Walsh (1864)
"FOSTER NURSE. The greyhound frequently produces a greater number of whelps than
she can well rear, and it becomes a question what is to be done in such ..."
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