To encourage; to foster; to stimulate
To feed and cause to grow; to supply with food or other matter which increases weight and promotes health.
To educate or bring up; to nurture; to promote emotional, spiritual or other non-physical growth.
To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
To cherish; to comfort.
To support; to maintain; to be responsible for.
To clamp with or as with a vise.
An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.