To nurse; cherish, To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up, in obsolete To be nourished or trained up together, verb_ promote the growth of, bring up under fosterage; of children, adjective_ Providing parental care and nurture to children not related through legal or blood ties, one who takes the place of a mother; a nurse, earth by which a plant is nourished, though not its native soil, noun_ countable, obsolete A forester, uncountable The care given to another; guardianship