Meanings
verbdrynurse (third-person singular simple present drynurses, present participle drynursing, simple past and past participle drynursed)
present singular third person drynurses · participle present drynursing · participle past drynursed · past drynursed
- alternativeAlternative form of dry nurse.
As Romulus a wolf did rear, So he was dry-nursed by a bear, That fed him with the purchased prey Of many a fierce and bloody fray.
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC
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