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nurse(1) (iou) and Angevin dynasty (sh)


nurse(1) (iou)



nurse noun1. LME.
[Contr. of NOURICE.]
a. Orig., a wet-nurse. Later, a woman employed or trained to take charge of a young child or children. arch. LME.
b. transf. & fig. A source of nourishment and care; a person who takes care of or looks after another. LME.
Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.
A person, esp. a woman, caring for the sick or infirm, spec. one professionally qualified for this purpose; a person professionally qualified to provide advice on Health and to treat minor medical problems. Freq. with specifying word. L16.
charge-nurse, district nurse, geriatric nurse, etc. DENTAL nurse.
Forestry. A tree planted to shelter others. Also nurse-tree. L18.
Entomology. A worker ant, bee, etc., which cares for the larvae. E19.
Zoology. In some invertebrates, esp. tunicates, an asexual individual. M19.
Phrases: at nurse in the care or charge of a nurse. put out to nurse, put to nurse commit to the care or charge of a nurse.
Comb.: nurse cell any cell whose function appears to be to support or nourish another, esp. an ovum; nurse-child arch. a child in relation to his or her nurse; a foster-child; nurse-crop: planted to protect another; nurse-father a foster-father; nurse-frog the midwife toad; nurse-mother (now rare or obsolete) a foster-mother; nurse-plant: which is host to a parasite; nurses' Home a hostel providing residential accommodation for the nurses employed by a hospital; nurse-tend verb trans. & intrans. care for (a sick or infirm person); nurse-tender (chiefly Anglo-Irish) a nurse who cares for a sick or infirm person; nurse-tree: see sense 3 above.

Angevin dynasty (sh)




Descendants of a 10th-century count of Anjou (the source of the adjective Angevin).

The Angevin dynasty overlaps with the house of Plantagenet but is usually said to consist of only the English kings Henry II, Richard I, and John. Henry established the Angevin empire in the 1150s when he took control of Normandy, Anjou, Maine, and, through his Marriage to Eleanor, Aquitaine. When he became the king of England in 1154, Henry extended the Angevin holdings from Scotland to the Pyrenees. English claims to French territory led to the Hundred Years' War; by 1558 the English had lost all their former French lands.