nursling n an infant considered in relation to its nurse Usage(s) Milk drains from the blood of a smoking mother those smoke ingredients which please her, but may not agree with her nursling. Despite these advantages, the nursling's survival prospect was never very high. Her nursling's harassed father at last scraped together the necessary $16 million; a few days later the cost of the rice had risen to $23 million. Synonym(s) nurseling suckling