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View synonyms for nursling
nursling
/ ˈnɜːslɪŋ /
noun
- a child or young animal that is being suckled, nursed, or fostered
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If a man has taken a young child ‘from his waters’ to sonship, and has reared him up, no one has any claim against that nursling.
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But if either of them showed the faintest sign of fatigue, the mother dived quietly and lifted the tired nursling to the surface.
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Nettie, who was not much given to caresses, came up and put sudden arms round her special nursling.
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The black woman cared more for her white nursling than her own child.
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The use of a sucking-bottle most nearly imitates the way in which nature designed the nursling to obtain its nourishment.
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