nursle

verb

nursle

verb

UK /ˈnəːs(ə)l/

Etymology Alteration of nuzzle, after nurse.

1

Archaic To nurture, train, raise (a person).

the late borne childe […] till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, / He noursled vp in life and manners wilde […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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