drynurse

See also: dry nurse and dry-nurse

English

Verb

drynurse (third-person singular simple present drynurses, present participle drynursing, simple past and past participle drynursed)

1. Alternative form of dry nurse
   • 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:

     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.

References

“drynurse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.