dry-nurse

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I say, old Voules, I thought he was going to cut you altogether; but perhaps he’ll honour you by giving that yelping pup of his into your charge to dry nurse.

From The Rival Crusoes by Kingston, William Henry Giles

"Clap on here, Peg," cried the woman to another, "and let's have this little midshipmite; I wants a baby to dry nurse."

From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Marryat, Frederick

"Where's yore dry nurse Dingwell?" broke in the ex-convict bitterly.

From The Sheriff's Son by Raine, William MacLeod

She acted, I believe, as dry nurse to the distinguished Colonel of sepoys, my uncle.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

A dry nurse must be found at once, a nurse competent to take every precaution and give the child every chance.

From Damaged Goods; the great play "Les avaries" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author by Brieux, Eugène