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What is a dry-nurse?

What is a dry-nurse? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A nurse who takes care of a baby, but does not breastfeed
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The gaunt weaver was dry-nurse at Cauldstaneslap, and the bairns loved him dearly.
If the traders require a dry-nurse system, let them formulate one in place of the one sketched above.
To prune feeble plants and shrubs is like acting the part of dry-nurse to a sickly orphan.
I am not going to dry-nurse a girl at the age of fifty-four.
At last, however, she relented, and concluded to remain on earth as dry-nurse to Mr. Bassett.
You are doomed to dry-nurse Martin for life, whether he wants you or no.

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