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nursling

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If a man has taken a young child ‘from his waters’ to sonship, and has reared him up, no one has any claim against that nursling.

But if either of them showed the faintest sign of fatigue, the mother dived quietly and lifted the tired nursling to the surface.

Nettie, who was not much given to caresses, came up and put sudden arms round her special nursling.

The black woman cared more for her white nursling than her own child.

The use of a sucking-bottle most nearly imitates the way in which nature designed the nursling to obtain its nourishment.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nursling, such as: babe, bairn, bambino, bundle, buttercup, and button.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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