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• a variation of nursling.

nurseling

American  

[nurs-ling] / ˈnɜrs lɪŋ /

noun

1. a variant of nursling.

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nurseling

Probably the hen who has reared a duckling and sees it sail off into the water experiences, alongside her natural apprehension and astonishment, a somewhat similar pride in the startling proclivities evinced by her nurseling.

From The Lamp of Fate by Margaret Pedler

In both cases the new diet was accepted without hesitation, a proof that it suited the nurseling; but in a day or two putrescence supervened and the Scolia perished on the fetid morsel.

From More Hunting Wasps by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

Let them all go," said he, "these magnates, to kiss the hand of this emperor of seven months, and wallow in the dust before the cradle of a whimpering nurseling!

From The Daughter of an Empress by Nathaniel Greene

There’s never a delicate nurseling of the year But our huge London hails it, and delights To wear it on her breast or at her ear, Her days to colour and make sweet her nights.

From Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses by William Ernest Henley

She had grown just as the bush wild flowers grow—hardy, unchecked, almost untended; for, though old nurse had always been there, her nurseling had gone her own way from the time she could toddle.

From A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce

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