Crossword-Solution: NURSLING 8 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Nursling n. One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling.

We have 9 clues for the answer “NURSLING”

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A baby that is being breast-fed 1 answer
Delicate child. 1 answer
One being carefully tended to 1 answer
Unweaned infant 1 answer
an infant considered in relation to its nurse 1 answer
child or young animal that is being suckled, nursed, or fostered 1 answer
nurseling 1 answer
Infant 15 answers
Baby __ 62 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with NURSLING (5)

Tembaitake, our king’s father, was short, middling stout, a poet, a good genealogist, and something of a fighter; it seems he took himself seriously, and was perhaps scarce conscious that he was in all things the creature and nursling of his brother.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 2012
Take her as the visionary nursling of your own fancy; and she will grow upon you, all the more clearly, as the living woman who dwells in mine.
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 1996
XLI She knowing old Bardino in that wight, Bardino who from Monodantes' court With little Brandimart had taken flight, And reared his nursling in THE SYLVAN FORT; Then hearing what had thither brought the knight, With her had made him loosen from the port; Relating to that elder, by what chance Brandimart had to Africk passed from France.
Orlando Furioso Lodovico Ariosto 1996
Loud wailed the Nymphs around him; for they still Remembered how their nursling wont to lisp His childish prattle, compassed with their smiles.
The Fall of Troy Smyrnaeus Quintus 1996
The little straggler is like the duckling hatched in the nest of a hen; there is danger every day, that as the nursling begins to be acquainted with its own qualities, it may plunge itself into another element, and swim away from its benefactor.
Thoughts on Man William Godwin 1996

Quotes with NURSLING (1)

I carried with me into the West End Bar, the White Horse Tavern, a long list of things I would never do: I would never have my hair set in a beauty parlor. I would never move to a suburb and bake cakes or make casseroles. I would never go to a country club dance, although I did like the paper lanterns casting rainbow colors on the terrace. I would never invest in the stock market. I would never play canasta. I would never wear pearls. I would love like a nursling but I would …
Anne Roiphe Art and Madness: A Memoir of Lust Without Reason
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 5 times in crossword archives (1954–2019).