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Meanings of nursling in English

Portuguese
primeira infância
Catalan
lactant

An infant considered in relation to its nurse.

primeira infância
Synonyms
Examples for "suckling"
Examples for "suckling"
1
And so it did-died in its sleep while she was suckling it.
Gudrid the Fair / A Tale of the Discovery of America
2
But I found a fierce and feverish delight in suckling my child.
The Woman Thou Gavest Me; Being the Story of Mary O'Neill
3
But in that long suckling, deep-seated prejudice and mindless hatred were nourished.
The Irish Times
4
The effects of miscarriage are far more weakening than those of suckling.
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
5
The first man who saw her suckling it stared and jumped about.
Gudrid the Fair / A Tale of the Discovery of America
1
I give the nurseling, which is an Anthrax-eater, a young Phaneroptera.
More Hunting Wasps
2
In what way is it the nurseling of the sky?
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide
3
In a little while, the Oryctes is a noisome mass on which the nurseling lies poisoned.
More Hunting Wasps
4
Once only had Diana to protect her nurseling.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4
5
Would she be guilty of such inconceivable maternal aberration as to leave her nurseling without nourishment?
The Mason-Bees
Usage of nursling in English
1
Farewell, Curley; I will bring you back your nursling safe and sound.
Tom Tufton's Travels
2
And David answered: May thy life be the nursling of Time, Effendina.
The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Vo...
3
A nursling is fed on milk before proceeding to bread and broth.
A Book of Exposition
4
These nursling vegetables were cared for as Maggie had watched her babies.
Nature's Serial Story
5
Then the pine outstripped its nursling, and threatened to smother it.
Hero Tales of the Far North
6
The black woman cared more for her white nursling than her own child.
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War
7
What dreams come to us as we watch the clinging nursling!
Letters of Two Brides
8
He is the one I'd have picked out of all England for my nursling.
Love Me Little, Love Me Long
9
Root, stem, and branch, she was the nursling of authority.
France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France ...
10
At home or abroad, she never parted from her nursling.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
11
Child of the sun, and nursling of the tropics, it would expire in these climes.
The Last Man
12
The brave woman was conscious of feeling a sort of respect for her former nursling.
The Waif of the "Cynthia"
13
No mother could have looked after her baby as Gerasim looked after his little nursling.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian
14
And before she had a lap, she managed to force one for some ailing nursling.
Balcony Stories
15
An aunt, bound to her nursling by ties of such pure affection as united Mlle.
The Collection of Antiquities
16
How darest thou demand this of me, O son of shame and nursling of lewdness?
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume II
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