nursle
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /ˈnəːs(ə)l/
Verb

nursle (nursles, present participle nursling; past and past participle nursled)

  1. (now rare, archaic) To nurture, train, raise (up) (a person).
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vi:
      the late borne childe [...] till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, / He noursled vp in life and manners wilde [...].



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