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Definition of Nursling
1. Noun. An infant considered in relation to its nurse.
Definition of Nursling
1. n. One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling.
Definition of Nursling
1. Noun. A young child or animal being nursed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nursling
1. an infant [n -S] - See also: infant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nursling
Literary usage of Nursling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Boniface could only return to England to his monastery of nursling. Here he might
now have settled down into a quiet path of life, for, on the death of ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Therefore the surest of all winged signs He sent him forth—an eagle 'twixt his
claws Clasping a fawn the nursling of a hind ; This it let fall upon the ..."
3. Poems by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1890)
"The nursling of Civility. LO, how the woman once was woo'd : Forth leapt the
savage from his lair, And fell'd her, and to nuptials rude He dragg'd her, ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"The Pepsin Secretion of the Healthy and the Sick nursling.—The method employed by J.
ROSENSTEIN (Berl. klin. Woch., 1908, xlv, 542) follows the principle ..."
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