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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nurse employed to care for but not breast-feed an infant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A nurse who attends and feeds a child by hand; -- in distinction from a
wet nurse , who suckles it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
nurse who attends and feeds achild by hand, distinguished from awet nurse , whosuckles it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a nurse who cares for but does not suckle an infant
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