To nurse or cherish something.
To cultivate and grow something.
To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.
Related by such care.
Receiving such care.
Providing parental care to children not related to oneself.
A foster parent.
The care given to another; guardianship.
To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to.
To drink slowly, to make it last.
To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast.
To foster, to nourish.
To manage with care and economy.
To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle.
To treat kindly and with extra care.
To hold closely to one's chest
To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters.
A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction.
A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young.
A shrub or tree that protects a young plant.
A person trained to provide care for the sick.
A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place.
A nurse shark or dogfish.