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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Drynursenoun
Etymology: dry and nurse.
Mistress Quickly is in the manner of his nurse, or his drynurse, or his cook, or his laundry, his washer, and his wringer. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.
To Drynurseverb
To feed without the breast.
Etymology: from the noun.
As Romulus a wolf did rear,
So he was drynurs’d by a bear. Hudibras, p. i. cant. 2.
Webster Dictionary
Drynurseverb
to feed, attend, and bring up without the breast
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of drynurse in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of drynurse in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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