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noursle

noursle is the alternative spelling of nursle.

Meaning of nursle

Verb

nursle (third-person singular simple present nursles, present participle nursling, simple past and past participle nursled)

  1. (archaic) To nurture, train, raise (a person).
    • the late borne childe […] till to ryper yeares he gan aspire, / He noursled vp in life and manners wilde […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of noursle

third-person singular presentnoursles
present participlenoursling
past participlenoursled
pastnoursled

Questions about noursle

What is noursle the alternative spelling of?
Noursle is the alternative spelling of nursle.

Words near noursle in the dictionary

  1. nouriture
  2. Nours
  3. nourse
  4. nourseothricin
  5. Nourses
  6. noursle
  7. noursled
  8. noursles
  9. noursling
  10. Nouruz
  11. nouryshe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: noursle (page history and authors); nursle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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