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wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey. I think I'm as hard as a nur, and as tough as whitleather. W. Howitt.

One of the prehistoric towerlike structures found in Sardinia.

To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl.

e who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise. Burke.

See Houndfish.

A girl employed to attend children.

A pond where fish are fed. Walton.

One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

The act of nursing. [Obs.] "Her kind nursery." Shak.

One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.

Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling. I was his nursling once, and choice delight. Milton.

To nurse. See Noursle. [Obs.]

The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training. A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise. Milton.

Excess of acetone in the urine, as in starvation or diabetes.

A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.

One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Written also anoura.]

Destitute of a tail, as the frogs and toads. [Also written anourous.]

Nonsecretion or defective secretion of urine; ischury.

The group of Thysanura which includes Lepisma and allied forms; the bristletails. See Bristletail, and Lepisma.