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nursles

nursles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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

Questions about nursles

What is nursles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Nursles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nursle.

Words near nursles in the dictionary

  1. nursingly
  2. nursings
  3. nursingwear
  4. nursle
  5. nursled
  6. nursles
  7. nursling
  8. Nursling and Rownhams
  9. nurslings
  10. nurst
  11. nurstle

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