Definition of "nourse" [nourse]

• An obsolete form of nurse. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "For to any one of these the name of a nourse is fitly given: whence a good wife is called her husbands nourse: and that Rebeckahs nourse was only such a one, appeareth, [Gen. 24.61.] because afterward she is not named a nourse, but a maide, saying: Then Rebeckah rose, and her maides; now maids give not suck out of their breasts, never any virgin, or honest maide gave suck, but that blessed one from an extraordinary, & blessed power."
• "Nature tells everybody about but I learned all the runes of the gamest game ever from my old nourse Asa."
• "Setting the ponderous main-nourse, because the main-nopmast could not be trusted to carry sail."