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One who, or that which, nourishes. Milton.

Promoting growth; nutritious,

Nutritively; cherishingly.

The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.

Nurture. [Obs.] Spenser.

o bring up. [Obs.] [Written also nosel, nousel, nousle, nowsle, nusle, nuzzle, etc.] She noursled him till years he raught. Spenser.

That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised. Lam. iii. 45.

An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.

To exceed in the number of mistresses. [R.] Shak.

To pour out. Milton.

That which is scoured out o Buckland.

To make excessive display or flourish of. Collier.

in the region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor.] Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.

d of a man or a woman. The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour Macaulay.

ith love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words. [Obs.] For par amour, I loved her first ere thou. Chaucer.

To perform. [Obs.] Chaucer. Piers Plowman.

A piller; a plunderer. [Obs.]

straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.

A medley or mixture. Specifically:

as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.