nursle
English
Etymology
Alteration of nuzzle, after nurse.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnəːs(ə)l/
Verb
nursle (third-person singular simple present nursles, present participle nursling, simple past and past participle nursled)
- (now rare, archaic) To nurture, train, raise (up) (a person).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
- the late borne childe [...] till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, / He noursled vp in life and manners wilde [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
Anagrams
- lusern