Suckle
81raḍāʿ — ▪ Islamic law (Arabic: “to suckle”), in Islam, a legal relationship established between children when they are nursed by the same woman, the result being that they are forbidden to intermarry. Such a prohibition was prevalent in Arabian… …
82Lactation — The process of milk production. Human milk is secreted by the mammary glands, which are located within the fatty tissue of the breast. The hormone oxytocin is produced in response to the birth of a new baby, and it both stimulates uterine… …
83Nurse — 1) A person trained, licensed, or skilled in nursing. 2) To feed an infant at the breast. * * * 1. To breast feed. 2. To provide care of the sick. 3. One who is educated in the scientific basis of nursing under defined standards of education and… …
84Mammalia — The highest class of living organisms; it includes all the vertebrate animals (monotremes, marsupials, and placentals) that suckle their young, possess hair, and (except for the egg laying monotremes) bring forth living young rather than eggs. [L …
85Sperm whale — Sperm Whale[1] Size compared to an average human …
86Divorce (Islamic) — Part of a series on Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh) …
87nurse — [13] The ultimate source of nurse was Latin nūtrīre (which also gave English nourish [13], nutriment [16], and nutrition [16]). This originally meant ‘suckle’ (it is related to Sanskrit snauti ‘drips, trickles’), but was later generalized to… …
88infant — n. 1) to nurse, suckle; wean an infant 2) a newborn; premature infant 3) (misc.) infant mortality (see also baby7 11,13) * * * [ ɪnfənt] premature infant suckle wean an infant a new born to nurse (misc.) infant mortality (see also baby 7 11,13) …
89suck — [OE] Suck is part of a widespread Indo European family of ‘suck’ words which go back to the base *seug , *seuk . This no doubt originated in imitation of the sound of sucking from the mother’s breast. Amongst its relatives are Latin sūgere (whose …
90nurse — {{11}}nurse (n.1) 12c., nurrice wet nurse, foster mother to a young child (modern form from late 14c.), from O.Fr. norrice foster mother, wet nurse, nanny (source of proper name Norris), from L.L. *nutricia nurse, governess, tutoress, noun use of …
