nursling

[ UK /nˈɜːslɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an infant considered in relation to its nurse
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  • Among the western Eskimo, "the mother who loses her nursling places the poor 'papoose' in a beautifully ornamented box, which she fastens on her back and carries about her for a long while. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
  • Our railway tunnels are wonderful works of science, but the mole tunnelled with its foot, and the pholas with one end of its shell, before our navvies handled pick or spade upon the heights of the iron roads: worms were prior to gimlets, ant-lions were the first funnel makers, a beaver showed men how to make the milldams, and the pendulous nests of certain birds swung gently in the air before the keen wit of even the most loving mother laid her nursling in a rocking cradle. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • In my ignorance, I had not thought to wonder what a nursing mother does if deprived of her nursling. Sick Cycle Carousel
  • Having my nursling there made me feel so split as well. That’s Me In The Corner | Her Bad Mother
  • And with an earnest credulity, which contained the germ of purest faith, she, remembering the mother's dream, called her nursling by the name of Olive. Olive A Novel
  • Soranos believed that the wet nurse transmits her own qualities to the child, so an even-tempered woman free from superstition should be found; she should also be Greek-speaking, so that the nursling becomes accustomed to hearing Greek.
  • As the mother of two-out-of-three kids with food allergies, I miss not only eating what I want when I want, but also not having to do a mental inventory of all the ingredients in each mouthful of food to judge whether or not my nursling will have a reaction. sigh 10 Things To Do Before You Become A Parent
  • A young girl could watch as her newborn sibling latched on to her mother's breast, and could observe how the mother would switch the nursling from one breast to the other.
  • Now that my children are 13 and 8, I look back happily on the days when I had a nursling in my bed.
  • As the mother of two-out-of-three kids with food allergies, I miss not only eating what I want when I want, but also not having to do a mental inventory of all the ingredients in each mouthful of food to judge whether or not my nursling will have a reaction. (sigh) 10 Things To Do Before You Become A Parent | Her Bad Mother
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