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Definition of Nourice
1. n. A nurse.
Definition of Nourice
1. Noun. (obsolete form of nurse) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nourice
1. a nurse [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nourice
Literary usage of Nourice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge (1884)
"... nourice Skene MSS, No 8, p. 25. Sharpe's Ballad Book, ed. Laing, p. 169.
WE see from this pretty fragment, which, after the nature of the best popular ..."
2. Early English Prose Romances: With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions by William John Thoms (1858)
"But that not withstanding yet was he not a kinge as the two first were for that
he sucked another nourice than his mother bicause the child cried. ..."
3. A Narrative of Facts, Relating to a Prosecution for High Treason: Including by Thomas Holcroft (1795)
"... nourice me Guilty ; and let my members be cut off, my bowels burnt, my head
fevered* from the trunk, and my body divided into four quarters and fent to ..."
4. The Best English and Scottish Ballads (1911)
"48. And now he's gotten a bonny young son, And mickle grace be him upon! THE QUEEN
OF ELFLAND'S nourice 1. '/ HEARD a cow low, a bonnie cow low, ..."
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