nursle

English

Alternative forms

noursle, nurstle

Etymology

Alteration of nuzzle, after nurse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnəːs(ə)l/

Verb

nursle (third-person singular simple present nursles, present participle nursling, simple past and past participle nursled)

1. (now rare, archaic) To nurture, train, raise (a person).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     the late borne childe […] till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, / He noursled vp in life and manners wilde […]

Anagrams

• lusern