Nourish

1. n. A nurse.
2. v. t. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment.
3. v. t. To support; to maintain.
4. v. t. To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.
5. v. t. To cherish; to comfort.
6. v. t. To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments.
7. v. i. To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
8. v. i. To gain nourishment.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.